Google Gender Debacle Speaks to Tech Culture Wars

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Michael Schmidt, vice chair of Cozen O'Connor's Labor & Employment department, discusses this topic on the Denton Record-Chronicle. The Google engineer who blamed biological differences for the paucity of women in tech had every right to express his views. And Google likely had every right to fire him, workplace experts and lawyers say. Michael said that while workers might have refrained from such remarks around the physical watercooler, "people treat ... electronic communications much more informally than face-to-face speech."

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