Samuel Adams
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “Except for people that don’t and that’s a serious issue.”

My point was that respected intellectuals advance the same point as the Google author, so expressing the view, right or wrong, should definitely not be a firing offense.

And he definitely did not say that women were inferior, though that is how the media is characterizing his thesis. Rather he simply said, in part, that it’s not gender discrimination but rather naturally occurring differing interests between men and women that’s responsible for the over-representation of men in computer programming. This is a widely held opinion by respected intellectuals, as my link shows. Maybe it’s wrong, but it’s not a hate based belief, as it is being widely treated and referenced as.

His recommendation was to eliminate policies that utilize gender discrimination to get more women into the field and instead develop programs based on science (studies of gender differences) which would organically bring more women into the field by making it more attractive to people more interested in working with people than things. Hence his suggestion that programmers pair up — so there is more human interaction in the endeavor — rather than solo work.

Is that to you evidence he needs counseling? Words do matter, but so does freedom of speech!

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