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Ask Slashdot: Female Engineers, Could You Please Share Your Thoughts On the Google Memo

Reader joshtops writes: The widely circulated memo written by software engineer James Damore has become the talking point across companies in Silicon Valley, and elsewhere. In an interesting take, The Economist on Tuesday argued with the scientific or otherwise assumptions made by Damore. I was wondering what female engineers -- or females in other STEM beats -- think of the memo.

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  1. This will not end well. by DuckDodgers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe you should post the question to a website with fewer trolls. I suggest 4chan.

    1. Re:This will not end well. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Shut up sexist. Today I identify as female, and I think the letter was correct.

    2. Re:This will not end well. by MSojka · · Score: 5, Funny

      On second thought , let's not go to 4chan. 'Tis a silly place.

  2. Re:I'm not female by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 4, Funny

    Better not count using breast size otherwise you'll get a lot of male users in your statistics.

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  3. Re:I had posted this elsewhere. My op by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do you believe that your inability to organize your writings into paragraphs may have adversely affected your employment prospects?

  4. Why are there NO female engineers on Slashdot? by richrz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, they ALL want to come here, trust me. Through a system of evil and well-thought out artificial barriers Slashdot has managed to keep them at bay by blocking all female engineers with user imperceptible OSI layer micro-blockers.

  5. Re:Just as ignorant as educated males see it by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because women at google are in no way different from the average.

    There's no selection process at all at google. .

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  6. DEMAND PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION! by hsthompson69 · · Score: 1, Funny

    When less than 50% of the responses to this question are female, we should investigate what slashdot can do to make the site more balanced, with an equal number of male and female users.

    Because obviously any disparity is due to the inherent sexism of slashdot.

    Maybe refuse to add male accounts until we have an equal number of females?

  7. Re:I'm not female by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's the % of female users on Slashdot, seriously?

    The same as the percentage of Slashdot users who have had sex. With another person.

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  8. Re:We're just tired of this bullshit. by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Division is only coming from the left?

    Well, multiplication is coming from the religious right, so that would make sense.

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