Robert Scott
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

Your point 3 is completely incorrect. The memo author explains at least 3 times, he doesn’t believe any individual should be, or can be, inherently unequal or disadvantaged to do a task. The very valid scientific question, is if populations as a whole are unequal (they are), shouldn’t we employ strategies informed by that (we should)? That memo was all about, who do we improve the effectiveness of achieving our shared objective? And everyone has overlooked that because they disagreed with one, not outlandish claim — the population of women as a whole may be inherently not as well adapted to the way we do this work today. That is a very reasonable, and debatable, position to hold with evidence for and against. Certainly its not clear cut enough a point to abandon and fire an ally in improving advancement toward, again, what the author of the memo stated was his shared goal with Google — seeing more women succeed.