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I'm 47 and I also have never heard this in my life. So I don't think it's just a matter of younger generations.

• latexr 2y ago
  It wasn’t too long ago that very topic was all around tech news. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Chamber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Ch...
  • mitthrowaway2 2y ago
    Are you certain that memo was making an argument that "women lack innate aptitude compared to men"? It's been a while since I read it, but it seemed to me that it was arguing that differences in gender representation may be mostly attributable to differences in the degree to which men and women were attracted to high-pressure jobs at Google, rather than because of discrimination in hiring or promotions, and that the gap would be better addressed by making those jobs intrinsically more attractive to women, rather than by hiring quotas.
    • zahlman 2y ago
      Many people seem quite certain that it was. Despite that it wasn't.
  • rsynnott 2y ago
    That was, well, one weirdo and a bunch of laypeople (who were, one suspects, into the idea for political/ideological reasons), though; I don't think many _programmers_ ever believed this.