> The Google engineer who was fired last week over his memo wrote that most women were biologically unsuited to working in tech because they were more focused o

> The Google engineer who was fired last week over his memo wrote that most women were biologically unsuited to working in tech because they were more focused on “feelings and aesthetics than ideas” and had “a stronger interest in people rather than things.” Many scientists have said he got the biology wrong. But the job requirements of today’s programmers show he was also wrong about working in tech. But... he didn't get it wrong. Collaboration and social skills are extremely valuable in tech, sure. But they aren't the primary focus of the job. If I were someone more interested in people than things (not saying that women are), I wouldn't want to work in an industry where the primary objective is to make a thing, regardless of how cooperatively the thing was made.