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funnyguys

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    Comment #14972425

    I read in comments from people who claimed to work for Google - diversity initiatives in Google aim to bring the diversity close to the male-female ratio in the applicant pool. Cou…

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    Comment #14972250

    Are there any studies that concludes empathetic people become psychologists (honest question as I do not know)? Or is it an assumption that we make because of the nature of the pro…

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    Comment #14972178

    In the memo, he mentions that the gender differences "may" be the reason for the lesser number of women in technology. There are no studies which link the differences with ability …

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    Comment #14966395

    This is not the same thing, is it? From reading the comments in most forums, looks like people seems to at least partially support the contents of the memo and the guy for writing …

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    Comment #14966362

    This is not just PC assertions. Generalizing characteristics of people based on their gender is harmful and exactly the reason racism is frowned upon. If biological reasons can det…

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    Comment #14966349

    This exactly - it was mediocre crap. When you insinuate that some of your co-workers have certain drawbacks because of their gender, it makes that gender more aware of their behavi…

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    Comment #14962000

    Yes, like in Gattaca we will decide the traits of people based on the gender, race and blood samples and assign jobs based on that.

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    Comment #14961970

    Quote from another article: "All of these traits which the manifesto described as “female” are the core traits which make someone successful at engineering. Anyone can learn how to…

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    Comment #14961896

    Any one even remotely thinks that the memo was right should read this : https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man... There are some good points in the memo - lik…

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    Comment #14961806

    When you insinuate that some of your co-workers have certain drawbacks because of their gender, it makes that particular gender all the more aware of their behaviour and they are p…