Why Google's Misstep Could Be The Best Thing For Equity In The Indian Workplace

Last week, James Damore, a software engineer at Google published his ten-page manifesto railing against the company’s diversity initiatives. His pop science laden argument on why men and women are biologically different, and hence equity in leadership aspirations are inherently futile, caused an uproar in the technology world.

Believers in gender equality heaved a collective sigh of relief when he was swiftly fired, much faster than Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and without a #deletegoogle campaign to boot. Our faith in Google was restored.

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This is an excerpt from an opinion piece for The Wire. Read the full piece here.