Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo

There are several cultures that have arisen independently and have had more than two genders. Many of them are still extant today, despite the best effort of colonialists.

So that's gender down.

Intersex individuals exist. Intersex conditions range from physiological to karyotypes with variant sex chromosomes.

Transgender individuals are very varied but there are indications that it is partially heritable with genetics and the prenatal environment hypothesized to explain some of that.

And that's biology.

I could write a 100 page essay about how loaded your question was, the implicit assumptions in the way it was written, the way that "BIOLOGICAL" is implied to be a way to ignore social conditions, and the contempt for ""Gender Studies"". But I won't, it's very tiring and there will be 10 other people like you tomorrow.

Corporations recognize "success" for employees through promotion. Promotion usually includes higher pay.

Men are taught from a young age that they need to "compete" for "success"

There is no way to win the game for all players inside corporate hierarchy.

If you can't win the game, but wish to remain (or are trapped by your economic situation) you will have pressure to feel validated.

Throughout history, dominant majorities (men, whites, etc) succumb to this same problem of "not enough winners." This format breeds a type of resentment instead of introspection.

Instead of facing the truth: the game is stacked against you, you may just not be that good etc., it is far easier to devise some sort of massive conspiracy or pseudo-science to justify your prejudice.

White men feel that they "deserve" things moreso now than ever because women, POC etc represent another competitor in their weird corporate power fantasy game.

It feels increasingly "Unfair" and contrasts to the cultural narrative we continue to endorse (especially here in SV) - that success is economic based, and based on merit.

Women and POC will continue to be the scapegoats until culturally we decide that "success" isn't about being an individual that becomes rich or powerful.

I'm not making any endorsement of the comment or of the science, since it isn't my field, but just relaying what he said.