Damore, who was fired in 2017 after writing a controversial memo about gender and technology, alleges in the lawsuit that white, male conservative employees at Google are “ostracized, belittled, and punished”. “We look forward to defending against Mr Damore’s lawsuit in court,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. The company’s workforce, like much of the rest of the tech industry, is overwhelmingly white, Asian, and male. But the Damore lawsuit purports to expose a cultural bias toward promoting diversity and “social justice” that, the suit claims, has created a “protected, distorted bubble of groupthink”. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The lawsuit claims that numerous Google managers maintained ‘blacklists’ of conservative employees.

Source: The Guardian January 08, 2018 23:10 UTC