The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google
The intellectual contortion required to get from the premise to the conclusion is actually quite impressive.<p>&gt; On average, men and women biologically differ in many ways. These differences aren’t just socially constructed because:<p>&gt; They’re universal across human cultures<p>Except the gender ratio in science&#x2F;engineering is anything but universal across cultures. 70% of science&#x2F;engineering students in Iran are women: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;amyguttman&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;set-to-take-over-tech-70-of-irans-science-and-engineering-students-are-women&#x2F;#44efca2e44de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;amyguttman&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;set-to-ta...</a>. Indeed, in many parts of the world that are not known for being &quot;liberal&quot; with regard to gender equality, women make up a significantly higher percentage of the scientific workforce than in the U.S.: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catalyst.org&#x2F;knowledge&#x2F;women-science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics-stem" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catalyst.org&#x2F;knowledge&#x2F;women-science-technology-e...</a> (44% in Latin America, 40% in Eastern Europe, 37% in the Arab states).<p>In the Soviet Union, a majority of engineers were women; after the fall that proportion went way down (from 60% to 40%): 
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asee.org&#x2F;public&#x2F;conferences&#x2F;20&#x2F;papers&#x2F;6985&#x2F;download" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asee.org&#x2F;public&#x2F;conferences&#x2F;20&#x2F;papers&#x2F;6985&#x2F;downlo...</a>.<p>&gt; Openness directed towards feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas. Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things, relative to men (also interpreted as empathizing vs. systemizing).<p>If this were true, shouldn&#x27;t women&#x27;s interest in CS be going up now that the web is all about feelings&#x2F;aesthetics&#x2F;social? Programming, in my view, is actually in the middle in the &quot;people versus things&quot; spectrum. It&#x27;s much more about people than, say, math. And of course, 45% of math majors are women, so I&#x27;m not sure how that fits into the author&#x27;s theory.<p>&gt; Women on average are more cooperative<p>Maybe, but does the degree of that effect explain the observed differences in representation? Tech is actually very cooperative. Compare, for example, litigation, which is all about confrontation and acrimony. But a third (and growing) of all litigators are women!