Google and the Gender Diversity Debate

A fraught debate highlights challenges facing Silicon Valley tech firms:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-08/google-can-t-seem-to-tolerate-diversity

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-08/iceland-s-gender-policy-holds-a-lesson-for-google

Related:

Gender Pay Gap Controversy - Interesting piece from The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/08/daily-chart

“Free Speech” does not exactly mean free speech:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2017/08/08/the-google-memo-is-a-reminder-that-we-generally-dont-have-free-speech-at-work/

“The First Amendment protects people from adverse actions by the government, but it does not generally apply to actions by private employers.

“It’s a common misconception — I hear employees raise it all the time,” said Jonathan Segal, a Philadelphia-based employment lawyer. “People don’t have a right in the workplace to say anything they want.””