Google Manifesto: Does Biology Explain Gender Disparities in Tech?

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Olexander Zahozhyy / Shutterstock.com A Google employee recently published an anti-diversity manifesto on an internal discussion board that has gone viral and stirred furious debate both inside and outside the company. In the essay, James Damore claimed that differences in the number of women and men in tech companies such as Google can be largely explained by biological differences, rather than sexism. As a result, some diversity efforts aimed at increasing the representation of women and other minorities are discriminatory against men, he argued. (After the memo went public, Google fired Damore for perpetuating gender stereotypes, Reuters reported.) But what does science have to say about the biological differences between men and women, and how do they affect the gender gap in tech