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.

Comments

This will not end well.

[DuckDodgers]

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

Re:This will not end well.

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:This will not end well.

[MSojka]

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

Re:I'm not female

[DontBeAMoran]

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

Re:I had posted this elsewhere. My op

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Why are there NO female engineers on Slashdot?

[richrz]

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.

Re:Just as ignorant as educated males see it

[Maxo-Texas]

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

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

Re:I'm not female

[PopeRatzo]

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

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

Re:We're just tired of this bullshit.

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Division is only coming from the left?

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