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timeletsA. On form.
He suggests that hiring additional female sw engineers and executives hurts Google business performance, but offers no empirical evidence to support the thesis. That is, he shows no effort whatsoever to correlate, e.g. the number of female hires with any kind of business performance indicators, either at a unit or corporate level. Putting forward a thesis without relevant evidence to support it is bad form.
B. On substance.
He claims that on average, women exhibit certain psychological traits, which in his opinion make women less suitable for sw engineering and executive jobs. He doesn't show that Google employee population is representative of the population in general. Even a cursory look at Google employee demographics shows that it is significantly different from the US population at large wrt to sex, age, education attainment, ethnicity, race, etc. In short, he doesn't demonstrate that evidence he cites applies to Google and its employment policies.
Overall, it's a dumb paper, although I'm not sure whether he should've been fired for being out of his depth on business and demographics issues. One can argue that firing him was justified because it prevented resignations of multiple qualified Google employees.
*The original paper can be found here. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf
He suggests that hiring additional female sw engineers and executives hurts Google business performance, but offers no empirical evidence to support the thesis. That is, he shows no effort whatsoever to correlate, e.g. the number of female hires with any kind of business performance indicators, either at a unit or corporate level. Putting forward a thesis without relevant evidence to support it is bad form.
B. On substance.
He claims that on average, women exhibit certain psychological traits, which in his opinion make women less suitable for sw engineering and executive jobs. He doesn't show that Google employee population is representative of the population in general. Even a cursory look at Google employee demographics shows that it is significantly different from the US population at large wrt to sex, age, education attainment, ethnicity, race, etc. In short, he doesn't demonstrate that evidence he cites applies to Google and its employment policies.
Overall, it's a dumb paper, although I'm not sure whether he should've been fired for being out of his depth on business and demographics issues. One can argue that firing him was justified because it prevented resignations of multiple qualified Google employees.
*The original paper can be found here. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf
