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Google employee's anti-diversity memo prompts company rebuke

The memo stoked the heated debate over treatment of women in the male-dominated Silicon Valley

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Reuters | Sam Forgione
Google executives over the weekend rushed to denounce an engineer’s memo that ascribed gender inequality in the technology industry to biological differences, a view that sparked outrage at the internet giant and inflamed tensions over sexual harassment and discrimination in Silicon Valley.
 
The unnamed engineer asserted in the 3,000-word document that circulated inside the company last week that “Google’s  left bias has created a politically correct monoculture” which prevented honest discussion of the issue.
 
“Distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we

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