Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring legal issues in the news, and Today, Bloomberg La host Gregg Store discusses a viral memo from a Google engineer who was fired after blasting the web company's diversity policies. He speaks with the Bloomberg News Google reporter Mark Berken. What specifically does it criticize Google? For? Right? I mean,
the title is Google's ideological echo chamber. It makes the point that a lot of the efforts around diversity inclusion, specifically around gender diversity and inclusion are actually counterproductive to Google as a business and as a culture. And it kind of goes through in a very ten page memo, very lengthy point about how these biases and the author claims that that Google is a very liberal place and
sort of des sends um. Any type of defending opinion, whether it be conservative or something like that would disagree with the positions on diversity are suppressed. Um and not giving not giving enough attention. Can you give us some sense of the gender numbers at Google? Just how male dominated is the company so overall? And the men as their latest figures men and women. Um. But the important part is in the tech team, UM, the tech employees,
it's it's much more heavily skewed its men. So the company, like a lot of tech companies, are a very difficult time in changing that ratio, even though they have for years now they've talked about their efforts to improve diversity internally. Yet what are some of the steps Google has been taking? How how hard have they been working to try to change those numbers? Right? I mean, it's really hard to tell from the out, so they don't typically disclose that.
Then they they've started a program called it an unconscious biased training, and that was one of the programs that was called out in the memo. UM. The author said that program is unnecessary and and sort of counterproductive. UM. Google is now facing you know, it comes with a sensitive time for the company. They're they're facing a Department of Labor lawsuit about their the the gap in the
gender pay. Google has argued that that law is inaccurate, that the women are not paid any differently than men, But they've not been willing to this closed data to show that. As Bloomberg News Google reporter Mark Bergen speaking with the Bloomberg Lah host Gregg's story, you can listen to Bloomberg Law weekdays at one pm Wall Street Time
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