On August technology tech giant Google fired James Damore, a yearold software

engineer who had been employed by the company since The move came after Damore penned

an internal company memo titled Googles Ideological Echo Chamber, which posited that innate

biological differences between men and womenas opposed to hiring biases, gender discrimination,

or a hostile workplacewere at least partly responsible for the low numbers of women in tech At the

time, of Googles tech workforce, of its senior leadership, and of its overall staff, was

female Damore also admonished Google for allegedly silencing opinions that challenged what he

viewed as the companys politically liberal belief system, calling it a politically correct monoculture.

He posted the memo to an online Google forum, and on August it was leaked to the public

See Appendix A for the memos full text.