This debate has already reached the top of the company, even as Microsoft successfully defends itself against a lawsuit by a group of women.
Microsoft employees took their heated discussion over diversity all the way to the CEO earlier this month, Quartz reports. While such discussions on how women are treated at the company pre-dates that published email string, it has grown rampant this month since that first Quartz story.
One employee blasted the company for encouraging Microsoft managers to hire more women on an internal message board. This person once again claims that women's thoughts are somehow less suited to engineering than men."We still lack any empirical evidence that the demographic distribution in tech is rationally and logically detrimental to the success of the business in this industry….
This argument is a much-loved trope among those who believe that tech jobs earned by women and/or people of color are being wrongly distributed away from white guys. Many of the comments in the internal discussion condemned this anti-diversity argument.are ill suited for certain jobs such as engineering.
The main reason why fewer women choose engineering careers, and more of them drop out of tech, is cultural: women
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