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Google fires employee behind anti-diversity memo for 'perpetuating gender stereotypes'
Google has fired a computer engineer who caused a storm in Silicon Valley by asserting that the gender gap among technology workers was down to biological differences between men and women. James Damore, a Harvard university graduate who had worked at Google for four years, ignited a sexism row last week when he distributed a 10-page manifesto that accused the company of “political bias” against conservatives and said initiatives to encourage female programmers were “unfair”. On Tuesday Damore revealed he had been dismissed by Google for “perpetuating gender stereotypes” and said he was considering legal action against the company. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who is holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, offered him a job and accused Google of censorship. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai Credit: Reuters Damore’s manifesto had accused the company of a “left bias” and a “politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence”. It said the yawning gap in jobs and pay for male and female computer experts was partly due to biological causes such as “men’s higher drive for status” and women being “more prone to anxiety” rather than any biases and called for an end to the company’s initiatives to promote minorities. Google employees publicly criticised the memo but Damore said he had received many private messages of support from staff who felt the same way. Sundar Pichai, the company’s chief executive, said that while parts of the memo were fair to debate, much of it violated the company’s code of conduct. “To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK,” he said in an email to staff. The controversy has come at a sensitive time for Google, which is under investigation by the US government after accusations of gender pay inequality, and has been forced to hand over pay records. Former Google staff member Joshua Damore (centre) with two colleagues Assange, who has repeatedly attacked Google over privacy issues, tweeted: “Women and men deserve respect. That includes not firing them for politely expressing ideas but rather arguing back.” Damore said he was exploring all possible legal remedies against the company. Debate over the treatment of women in the male-dominated tech industry has raged for months. Claims of persistent sexual harassment in the ranks of Uber and of several venture capital firms led to management shakeups. Management at the largest tech firms, including Google, have publicly committed to diversifying their workforces, although the percentage of women in engineering and management roles remains low at many companies. Inside Google London offices
Mom Takes Hilarious Swimming Pool Photo to Celebrate Kids Returning to School
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Stunning images capture the moment lightning strikes over Monument Valley
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These stunning images captured the moment lightning struck over Monument Valley.
Jennifer Khordi, 47, was storm-chasing in Arizona when she came across the mesmerizing scenes.
Khordi, from New Jersey, watched as the sky turned a deep purple and pink lightning forks pierced through the epic storm clouds.
The iconic landmark casts a perfect silhouette against the ferocious storm.
Khordi, a semi-professional photographer, said, “The images were taken in Arizona during a trip I took to capture lightning and storm images from their active monsoon season.”
“I was very lucky to get such good images — I love the whole experience.”
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McDonald's plans to nearly double restaurants in China
NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's will nearly double the number of restaurants in China in the next five years, eventually surpassing Japan as the hamburger chain's second-biggest market outside the U.S.
China vows to enforce U.N. curbs on North Korea as Trump praises cohesion
By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China will pay the biggest price from the new U.N. sanctions against North Korea because of its close economic relationship with the country, but will always enforce the resolutions, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said. The U.N. Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Saturday over its continued missile tests that could slash the reclusive country's $3 billion annual export revenue by a third. Speaking at a regional security forum in Manila on Monday, Wang said the new resolution showed China and the international community's opposition to North Korea's continued missile tests, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
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