Back in August 2017, a leaked memo by Google employee James Damore alleged that the company was discriminating in its hiring practices based on race or gender. He claimed that Google was "pressing individual managers to increase diversity" and is "using race or gender" to decide which workers are promoted and with which teams’ job candidates are placed. Damore made controversial statements like: "Women, on average, have more openness directed towards their feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas. Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things, relative to men...These two differences in part explain why women relatively prefer jobs in social or artistic areas. More men like coding because it requires systemizing and even within software engineers, comparatively more women work on the front end, which deals with both people and aesthetics." Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, criticized the memo that claimed women had biological issues that prevented them from being as successful as men in technology. He said Damore's statements had “crossed the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.”  Damore was fired by Google after 3 1/2 years for writing the memo critical of the company's diversity efforts. Evaluate Damore's statements with respect to the discussion in this chapter of equity, diversity, and inclusion.