In an attempt to give a clue to those who still don't understand the Google firing of Damore:
It would be perfectly OK for Damore to say that all employees should get the opportunity to be mentored. It would have been perfectly OK for Damore to demand it. It would have been perfectly OK for him to have organized a public demonstration at the public entrance to the Google headquarters.
It is not OK for Damore to say that the employees in Google who currently get mentors are biologically disadvantaged and that is why the mentorship program is in place, and why it is misguided, and so on. Your colleagues who have been through the hiring process and who have worked in the corporation and have had satisfactory performance are your equals.
And if you can't/don't get this, then I can't explain it any further.
PS: similarly the "truth" of whether women are the same or different than men in the general population is irrelevant. The issue is whether the women working at Google are qualified to do their jobs. I'm quite certain the answer is yes - Google isn't operating a charity. Then if Google finds that women aren't getting their progressions and promotions and so on that their performance record says that they have earned, they are going to find that they need a diversity program. And they do. This happens, not because Google as a corporation has some intrinsic fault, but because Google employees are hired from a culture which often finds offensive women being something more than just decorative (e.g., think of the scorn heaped on "pant-suit". Or that the country elected Trump). A corporation can't rectify that in the culture as a whole, they do what they can within their boundaries.
PPS: Also see this:
http://fortune.com/2017/08/09/google-james-damore-diversity/
PPPS: and this:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/9/16122072/google-diversity-bias-training-james-damore-memo
It would be perfectly OK for Damore to say that all employees should get the opportunity to be mentored. It would have been perfectly OK for Damore to demand it. It would have been perfectly OK for him to have organized a public demonstration at the public entrance to the Google headquarters.
It is not OK for Damore to say that the employees in Google who currently get mentors are biologically disadvantaged and that is why the mentorship program is in place, and why it is misguided, and so on. Your colleagues who have been through the hiring process and who have worked in the corporation and have had satisfactory performance are your equals.
And if you can't/don't get this, then I can't explain it any further.
PS: similarly the "truth" of whether women are the same or different than men in the general population is irrelevant. The issue is whether the women working at Google are qualified to do their jobs. I'm quite certain the answer is yes - Google isn't operating a charity. Then if Google finds that women aren't getting their progressions and promotions and so on that their performance record says that they have earned, they are going to find that they need a diversity program. And they do. This happens, not because Google as a corporation has some intrinsic fault, but because Google employees are hired from a culture which often finds offensive women being something more than just decorative (e.g., think of the scorn heaped on "pant-suit". Or that the country elected Trump). A corporation can't rectify that in the culture as a whole, they do what they can within their boundaries.
PPS: Also see this:
http://fortune.com/2017/08/09/google-james-damore-diversity/
PPPS: and this:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/9/16122072/google-diversity-bias-training-james-damore-memo
