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

Posted by msmash on from the what-do-you-think dept.

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. Could you please... by ScentCone · · Score: -1, Troll

    Female engineers, could you please revisit this topic on Slashdot, yet again, to generate a big spike in ad traffic? In a week, we'll ask male engineers to say what they thought about what the female engineers thought. Because this definitely hasn't been discussed yet, and female engineers certainly wouldn't have participated earlier, not until they were asked to.

    Really?

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  2. Brains Different, or Not? by sycodon · · Score: -1, Troll

    There has been tons of opinions asserting that the brains of females and males are not different in any respect and that there is no reason a female can't be a brilliant scientist or engineer.

    There has been tons of opinions asserting that the brains of females and males are different, which is the reason a person can feel as if they are a female trapped in a male body, or visa versa.

    Seems to me that one argument obliterates the other, one way or another.

    My oh my. What's a SJW to think?

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    1. Re:Brains Different, or Not? by strstr · · Score: 1, Troll

      brains are very close when it comes to most types of work. not related to work that can be performed, men do have a slight edge due to slightly larger brain. this has actually caused problems to reinforce their false beliefs of superiority, as has their economic status which is what men really use to stay ahead. the thing is engineers are not doing that advanced of work anyway, it might make absolutely no difference because they are all working on kid stuff. it's kid stuff we don't even need done on earth. we could kill off all engineering jobs and the world would keep living.

      what was wrong is the arguments made by this male engineer forgot the political and economic issues holding women back. they are poorer, have less property and money, and going back in history men mostly white originally crafted the laws to own women and black slaves. women did not own property, the males did. the title deeds all read white male ownership. it was not until later black slaves were freed but were still slaves in the sense they had to work under rich white men in a system of capitalism. women eventually got the right to work, and vote, and even obtain college education but they suffered the same issues. they still had less money and property, and the white rich leadership favored keeping the money in house. what this means is women cannot get elected easily to top positions in government (you have to be a millionaire+ female to get elected), women do not get raises as much, women are forced into different types of jobs where money is offered such as modeling and sex work (partly by choice), etc. the framework for this is installed into laws. laws are very permissive of this keeping the power in the hands of rich people, mostly men who inherited their wealth unfairly from mistakes designed into the first governments.

  3. Re:As a female engineer... by poity · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seems like that is arguing for Damore to take women's feelings into account.

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  4. Re:I had posted this elsewhere. My op by Christinagirl1 · · Score: 1, Troll

    First off ...Anonymous Coward, this is a thread and not a creative writing class! If you cannot understand that...you are the one with the issue and should get off the internet. Secondly, if you had seen what I created the comment in, you would understand. And lastly, I have written a book and I am published. Have you? I'll add one more thing. You don't scare me! If you think you can bully me with your comment you've got another thing coming. So for all of you reading this...it's this kind of little jerk that's the problem. Are you trying to invalidate someone else so you feel better? Take my advise, it never works. Why? Because you still will get up in the morning and look in the mirror and fall short. So why don't you fix it and get a constructive HOBBY.