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>> On average, men and women biologically differ in many ways. These differences aren’t just socially constructed because:<p>> They’re universal across human cultures<p>Except the gender ratio in science/engineering is anything but universal across cultures. 70% of science/engineering students in Iran are women: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyguttman/2015/12/09/set-to-take-over-tech-70-of-irans-science-and-engineering-students-are-women/#44efca2e44de" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyguttman/2015/12/09/set-to-ta...</a>. Indeed, in many parts of the world that are not known for being "liberal" with regard to gender equality, women make up a significantly higher percentage of the scientific workforce than in the U.S.: <a href="http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics-stem" rel="nofollow">http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/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://www.asee.org/public/conferences/20/papers/6985/download" rel="nofollow">http://www.asee.org/public/conferences/20/papers/6985/downlo...</a>.<p>> 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't women's interest in CS be going up now that the web is all about feelings/aesthetics/social? Programming, in my view, is actually in the middle in the "people versus things" spectrum. It's much more about people than, say, math. And of course, 45% of math majors are women, so I'm not sure how that fits into the author's theory.<p>> 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!