Try to find even just one female neuroscientist or evolutionary biologist who argues that men and women are
not fundamentally different at a biological level and that the different behaviors, the different interests and preferences we are seeing are
not largely rooted in biology.
The author of this piece pretends that the opinion of ignorant far-left loonies is somehow the reasonable and intelligent one while the engineer who simply referred to the scientific consensus is the one who is ignorant. No, the SJWs are ignorant, in fact delusional.
The science backing that men and women are fundamentally different, including how their brains work, is much more solid and clear than say the science behind climate change. Not that I deny climate change, or that it is man-made and an existential threat. Those are reasonable assumptions based on the scientific evidence we have.
However, the assumption that men and women only behave differently and make different career choices because of some "evil sexist patriarchy" which is indoctrinating and forcing people into certain gender roles.. that is not a reasonable assumption. It is completely at odds with the state of science.
It is a shame that a company like Google whose business is based so heavily on science and engineering gives in to these crazed post-modernists who are willfully ignorant of all science which contradicts their insane ideology.
Also this has nothing to do with trying to exclude women from IT. Nobody denies that there are women who genuinely enjoy, say, software engineering and are good at it and nobody says they should be disqualified because of their sex. But the truth is that there are far less women than men who are like that, and that this will never change because of biological factors.
Maybe one can increase the number of women in IT a bit more by addressing cultural factors still keeping them out, but you will never see an equal number.
The author of this piece pretends that the opinion of ignorant far-left loonies is somehow the reasonable and intelligent one while the engineer who simply referred to the scientific consensus is the one who is ignorant. No, the SJWs are ignorant, in fact delusional.
The science backing that men and women are fundamentally different, including how their brains work, is much more solid and clear than say the science behind climate change. Not that I deny climate change, or that it is man-made and an existential threat. Those are reasonable assumptions based on the scientific evidence we have.
However, the assumption that men and women only behave differently and make different career choices because of some "evil sexist patriarchy" which is indoctrinating and forcing people into certain gender roles.. that is not a reasonable assumption. It is completely at odds with the state of science.
It is a shame that a company like Google whose business is based so heavily on science and engineering gives in to these crazed post-modernists who are willfully ignorant of all science which contradicts their insane ideology.
Also this has nothing to do with trying to exclude women from IT. Nobody denies that there are women who genuinely enjoy, say, software engineering and are good at it and nobody says they should be disqualified because of their sex. But the truth is that there are far less women than men who are like that, and that this will never change because of biological factors.
Maybe one can increase the number of women in IT a bit more by addressing cultural factors still keeping them out, but you will never see an equal number.