Many Google employees disagree with the firing of the memo writer

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Aeolus451 said:

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Men dominate many fields of work, but largely on an outdated premise IMO. In the past the man generally had to hunt for food and the woman would stay home to take care of children.

This basically has meant that men work, women stay home, but it's an outdated concept in a world wherein:

1.) We don't have to hunt for food. We don't even farm for our own food any more.

2.) Most households need two incomes to be able to live a comfortable life, as such women don't grow up anymore just assuming they can get pregnant and it's mission accomplished. Women are more career oriented and it's no just a feminist type thing, it's a reality of living in the world today. A woman can't assume she can be a housewife, what happens if he husband is not making enough money? What happens in a divorce?

So an influx of women into fields that previously would've been fairly male-only or male-centric is natural. The world doesn't need that many women working at a salon or whatever "people friendly" job some men would deem "women centric". Also does a female librarian not work with "things", how does she ever cope with such extreme "stress", lol. There are differences between men and women, but mainly that applies to extremely physical fields. Perhaps fields like construction will generally be dominated by men ... but office jobs where you sit in front of a computer? The men at Google (this guy in particular) looks like he couldn't bench press a bag of salt. 

It doesn't matter where the world needs women in the way you put it. No one decides that. Women choose for themselves what fields they want their career in or if they want to be some housewife or go off on some adventure.

What happens if women just don't like certain types of careers or prefer certain types over others? Wouldn't there be some kind of skew in employment rates of women with those types of jobs if that was the case? 

Isn't whether they can do the career they want to or not, the more important part about this? If there's a barrier or not?

If there's no barriers to get into a career, does it really matter how many women or men work in it? Fuck no. The goal isn't to create an artificial diversity but to make sure there's no barriers for anyone to gain entry in a career they want. 

Why isn't there more female roofers? Because they don't like it or want it as a job. Why isn't there more female scientists? Because they don't like it or want it as a job. 

First of all, women are not some singular monolithic group, just as men aren't. Some women may like working in one field, others may be fine working somewhere else. 

There aren't many women in many fields yet for reasons I stated above ... traditionally men have dominated most working classes because they were the only working class period. That doesn't work anymore for most households.

Women are just now being integrated into a lot more work enivronments and that will continue to accelerate over the next 20-30 years. There are only so many jobs for "daycare workers" and "salon workers" ... women are going to move into fields that typically would be associated with men. Some guys can have a Ron Burgandy esque hissy fit over that, but I don't think it's changes that from happening.  

And the computer industry is likely one of them. It isn't a physically demanding field like construction work might be. In general manual labor jobs are going the way of the dodo to begin with. Computers themselves have changed as well, no longer is the computer domain of men, women are a driving force in the adoption of computer technology, as such it only makes sense that companies would seek to hire more women as it is a lead demographic for their products/services. 

Here's a study that shows 63% of women prefer their smartphones (a computer) over their partner:

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/10/13/study-women-prefer-their-smartphone-to-their-partner/

The days of the computer being domain of the nerdy guy who sits infront of a giant tower PC are coming to a close but that stigma has existed in the past ("computers are for boys"). Today the definition of what a computer is has shifted. As a computer company I would be looking to hire more women, sure, not on the basis on a quota perhaps, but because a huge portion (perhaps even a majority) of my revenue base is women, if they are a leading consumer group, then sure I want them involved in the design process.