advancement. fewer female engineers than male engineers liberals believe because men are biased against women. now damore suspected that was not the entire story. quote we need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism. on average men and women biologically differ in many ways. these differences aren t just socially constructed. now, damore is a former childhood chess. he is from harvard. precise. he repeatedly pointed out that biological differences pertain to groups and often do not apply to individuals. none of that mattered. danielle brown google s vice president of diversity released a statement charging damore with having, quote, incorrect assumptions about gender. brown did not explain what those assumptions were or are they were incorrect. she didn t need to because no one in the media asked. flew home from vacation to respond to the growing crisis. many of damore s fellow
suited for tech jobs for biological and psychological reasons. training programs for women highly politicized. diversity work aliens yates nonprogressives, and the gendend nonprogressives, and the gende may explain why we don t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. we need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism. lori siegle, tech correspondent, and ellen petrie leone, a former apple and google executive. thank you for being with me. ellen, 35-year-plus career in silicon valley. when you read this, were you just aghast and surprised? or did you think, this is like so many people i worked with at apple and google? i won t say it s like so many people i worked with at apple appeared google. i think it is the flavor of the entire industry.
work-life balance, where men have a higher drive for status. he says, we have to stop assuming that gender gaps mean sexism. responding to the manifesto saying, they foster different opinions and political views, but the document is incorrect assumptions about gender saying, we are unequivocal in our belief that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success in the company. will continue to stand for that and the committed for the long haul. we should note, 80% of googles tech employees are men. a formal google engineer says all of the traits that were described in the manifesto as being female traits are actually the core traits that make somebody successful and engineering. it certainly stirred up a hornets nest inside google, but according to numerous media sites, social media sites many employees agree with it, although some female employees
concerned, saying the candidate still beats republicans in head-to-head matchups. she is beating everyone in her gender gaps are 10 to 11 points depending on who the candidate is. so we still have a lot of campaigning to do and she still has a lot of arguments to make. but do i think the coverage of these polls doesn t reflect the fundamental truth. i think most people would be surprised to hear that she actually continues do to perform better than these republican candidates. true. right now, kimberly she pretty much has to run against herself because she doesn t have any serious competition. and there are 17 republicans to fight against. she can t really pick one. but i would say her campaign has to look at a poll like this and say there are some serious warning signs. of course. nobody likes it when you have you re slipping in the polls, losing traction losing momentum. trump is hurting hillary. because she s losing air time. she s losing talk time. because he s driving th
obama won a second term over republican challenger mitt romney, he did so with the help of a whole lot of women voters who provided a gender gap you could drive a truck through. president obama did ten points better among women in 2012 than he did among men. that is one of the largest gender gaps ever recorded in a presidential election. gender gap was so big and so decisive in 2012 that it caught the attention of republican leaders. those leaders pledged to be better about talking to and talking about women in the future. this, of course, was after a 2012 campaign season in which several prominent republican candidates made inflammatory and politically suicidal comments that involved women. most infamously, todd akin s legitimate rape remark. multiple sessions supposedly to train republicans to avoid their own todd akin moments. how s it going for them? the short answer is it looks like it s a work in progress. on sunday the conservative newspaper, the washington examiner checked in