Speaker 1: Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring
Speaker 1: legal issues in the news, and Today, Bloomberg La host
Speaker 1: Gregg Store discusses a viral memo from a Google engineer
Speaker 1: who was fired after blasting the web company's diversity policies.
Speaker 1: He speaks with the Bloomberg News Google reporter Mark Berken.
Speaker 1: What specifically does it criticize Google? For? Right? I mean,
Speaker 1: the title is Google's ideological echo chamber. It makes the
Speaker 1: point that a lot of the efforts around diversity inclusion,
Speaker 1: specifically around gender diversity and inclusion are actually counterproductive to
Speaker 1: Google as a business and as a culture. And it
Speaker 1: kind of goes through in a very ten page memo,
Speaker 1: very lengthy point about how these biases and the author
Speaker 1: claims that that Google is a very liberal place and
Speaker 1: sort of des sends um. Any type of defending opinion,
Speaker 1: whether it be conservative or something like that would disagree
Speaker 1: with the positions on diversity are suppressed. Um and not
Speaker 1: giving not giving enough attention. Can you give us some
Speaker 1: sense of the gender numbers at Google? Just how male
Speaker 1: dominated is the company so overall? And the men as
Speaker 1: their latest figures men and women. Um. But the important
Speaker 1: part is in the tech team, UM, the tech employees,
Speaker 1: it's it's much more heavily skewed its men. So the company,
Speaker 1: like a lot of tech companies, are a very difficult
Speaker 1: time in changing that ratio, even though they have for
Speaker 1: years now they've talked about their efforts to improve diversity internally.
Speaker 1: Yet what are some of the steps Google has been taking?
Speaker 1: How how hard have they been working to try to
Speaker 1: change those numbers? Right? I mean, it's really hard to
Speaker 1: tell from the out, so they don't typically disclose that.
Speaker 1: Then they they've started a program called it an unconscious
Speaker 1: biased training, and that was one of the programs that
Speaker 1: was called out in the memo. UM. The author said
Speaker 1: that program is unnecessary and and sort of counterproductive. UM.
Speaker 1: Google is now facing you know, it comes with a
Speaker 1: sensitive time for the company. They're they're facing a Department
Speaker 1: of Labor lawsuit about their the the gap in the
Speaker 1: gender pay. Google has argued that that law is inaccurate,
Speaker 1: that the women are not paid any differently than men,
Speaker 1: But they've not been willing to this closed data to
Speaker 1: show that. As Bloomberg News Google reporter Mark Bergen speaking
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