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Google fires engineer at the centre of the diversity uproar

Google fires engineer at the centre of the diversity uproar

Written by on August 8, 2017 in News with 0 Comments

(Reuters) – Internet giant Google has fired the male engineer at the center of an uproar in Silicon Valley over the past week after he authored an internal memo asserting there are biological causes behind gender inequality in the tech industry. James Damore, the engineer who wrote the memo, confirmed his dismissal, saying in an […]

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Google’s diversity plans are not quite on track

Google’s diversity plans are not quite on track

Written by on July 1, 2016 in News with 0 Comments

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google on Thursday released data on its two-year-old diversity initiative to create a more diverse U.S. workforce, saying it had more black, Latino and female employees but still lagged its goal of mirroring the population. The company released its diversity figures for the first time in 2014 and sparked a […]

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