'That's What She Said' review: The acknowledgement gap

A book review by Robbie Myers

That’s What She Said

What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together by Joanne Lipman

William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers

297 pages;  $28.99

In early January, James Damore, a software engineer, sued Google for workplace discrimination, accusing it of bias against conservative white men. 

Mr Damore was fired by Google last summer, after posting a now infamous analysis of why the company had failed to hire more female engineers. Among other reasons, Mr Damore argued that women’s biology was at fault, as it rendered them less capable than men of handling high-stress jobs. Declining to acknowledge such “facts,” Google, he wrote,