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It all started with conservative, racist, homophobic comedian Steven Crowder. Vox reporter Carlos Maza, who writes the program Strikethrough, finally couldn’t take it anymore. He put together a video montage drawn from Crowder’s YouTube program with frequent remarks that ridicule Maza’s sexual orientation and race and it went viral on…
A recent New York Times report that said Google gave millions of dollars to some executives, like Andy Rubin ($90 million) in secret exit packages after they were accused of sexual misconduct. The report sparked outrage among employees who organized via social media and yesterday walked out of offices around…
A new lawsuit officially charges Google with discriminating against its female workers by “segregating” them into lower-paying positions. According to the suit, filed Thursday, Google “systematically” pays women less than men “performing substantially similar work.” It also accuses Google of “assigning and keeping women in job ladders and levels with…
A new analysis of pay data at Google once again demonstrates a gender wage gap at the company. Nearly 1,200 Google staff members in the United States roughly 2 percent of the company’s global workforce reported their salaries and bonuses in an employee-generated spreadsheet. The data, obtained by The New…
In the recent Google controversy, Damore, the young man who wrote the 10-pagememo that got him fired, has cast his firing as being liberal (Google) versus conservative (Damore). It’s neither. The media, especially the “conservative” media,is missing the point. Google exists to provide return on equity to its shareholders.Money doesn’t…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai cancelled a companywide town hall style meeting scheduled for Thursday amid employees’ fear of harassment primarily thanks to alt-right websites. The conversation was supposed to address gender issues following the highly publicized diatribe “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” written by former Google engineer James Damore, which suggested…
In his first interview with a mainstream media outlet, James Damore, the former Google engineer behind the widely controversial memo about women in tech and leadership, said the company “punished me and shamed me.” He also announced his plans to sue the tech giant earlier this week. “The whole point…
The Google engineer who penned a memo with misogynist ideas that cost him his job has spoken out about the situation. To read Damore’s full memo click here. Former Google engineer James Damore, who was fired on Monday, discussed what happened with Stefan Molyneux, host of a conservative YouTube channel….
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has broken his silence regarding the misogynist memo penned by one of the company’s engineers, who had reportedly been fired, according to media outlets. According to Pichai, while the memo was harmful to the company’s women, the employee had every right to author it. Google Engineer’s…
A 10-page misogynist memo penned by a Google engineer slamming diversity and suggesting women are inferior as leaders has gone viral in yet another example of Google’s failure to address its internal problems regarding sexism. To read James Damore‘s full memo click here. Meanwhile, Google is still entangled in a…
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