Nature, Nurture, And Our Evolving Debates About Gender
"One senior software engineer at Google, James Damore, recently suggested his company and the tech industry were going about it all wrong. 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. Damore cited research studies into the psychological and biological differences between the sexes. Women, he said, were more interested in people than things. They had more anxieties and lower stress tolerance. They tended to be less confrontational.
This quality, he said, made it hard for them to ruffle feathers and take on leadership roles. The memo created a firestorm inside the company. Many women at Google said it made them feel inferior and unwelcome. When that memo was leaked to the world, Google was not happy."
What's real? What's opinion? How do we know? Listen here.
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=669192536
"One senior software engineer at Google, James Damore, recently suggested his company and the tech industry were going about it all wrong. 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. Damore cited research studies into the psychological and biological differences between the sexes. Women, he said, were more interested in people than things. They had more anxieties and lower stress tolerance. They tended to be less confrontational.
This quality, he said, made it hard for them to ruffle feathers and take on leadership roles. The memo created a firestorm inside the company. Many women at Google said it made them feel inferior and unwelcome. When that memo was leaked to the world, Google was not happy."
What's real? What's opinion? How do we know? Listen here.
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=669192536
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