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Google memo completely misses how implicit biases harm women

  • Written by E. Anne York, Professor of Economics, Meredith College
imageBias at work?pixabay.com, CC BY

Workplace biases are back in the national conversation, thanks to the recent memo by a Google employee. The memo’s author challenges the company’s diversity policies, arguing that psychological differences between men and women explain why fewer women work in tech.

He also minimizes the effect that...

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