Many women at Google said it made them feel inferior and unwelcome. The memo created a firestorm inside the company. This quality, he said, made it hard for them to ruffle feathers and take on leadership roles. They had more anxieties and lower stress tolerance. Women, he said, were more interested in people than things. Damore cited research studies into the psychological and biological differences between the sexes.
In an internal memo, he argued that the vast gender gap in technology wasn't the result of prejudice but of biological differences between men and women.
One senior software engineer at Google, James Damore, recently suggested his company and the tech industry were going about it all wrong. Some have filed discrimination lawsuits against their companies. Many women, African-Americans and Latinos say tech is unwelcoming to them. VEDANTAM: While there are recruitment success stories in Silicon Valley, the overall results have been dismal. We want to see more people from underrepresented groups because it makes us a better company. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #4: Make it really clear - we want to see more women in senior leadership positions. Some of that money went to produce this video. Google, for example, spends tens of millions of dollars every year on efforts to recruit more women and people of color. VEDANTAM: Many companies have gone to great lengths to study the problem and to address it.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: Their diversity or lack of diversity and what they plan on doing to tackle it. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: Very few women and non-Asian people of color in engineering. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: In the past few months, frequent reports of Silicon Valley's rocky relationship with women have bubbled to the surface. What they've been less good at is in hiring and keeping a diverse workforce. For many years, tech companies have been really good at innovation and making money.
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