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The Google employee who was fired for writing an explanation about why more women are not working in technology careers was James Damore. In August 2017, Damore wrote a memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” that criticized the company’s diversity policies and argued that innate biological differences between men and women may explain why more men than women work in tech and leadership positions.

The memo sparked a heated debate within and outside of Google, with some defending Damore’s right to express his views and others criticizing the memo as perpetuating harmful stereotypes and biases. In response, Google CEO Sundar Pichai denounced the memo, stating that it violated the company’s code of conduct and perpetuated harmful gender stereotypes.

Damore was subsequently fired from his position at Google, and he later filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming that he had been discriminated against for his conservative views. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2018, but it sparked ongoing discussions about the role of free speech and diversity in the tech industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Chamber

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf

“Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber“, commonly referred to as the Google memo, is an internal memo, dated July 2017, by US-based Google engineer James Damore (/dəˈmɔːr/) about Google’s culture and diversity policies.^[1] The memo and Google’s subsequent dismissal of Damore in August 2017 became a subject of interest for the media. Damore’s arguments received both praise and criticism from media outlets, scientists, academics and others.

In August 2017, he wrote a memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” which criticized Google’s diversity initiatives and suggested that biological differences between men and women might explain the gender gap in tech careers. The memo became highly controversial and led to his termination by Google. His firing sparked extensive debates and discussions about diversity, inclusion, and free speech in the tech industry.