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Fired Google employee behind anti-diversity memo says he’s ‘exploring all possible legal remedies’

August 8, 2017

Alphabet’s Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo that ascribed gender inequality in the technology industry to biological differences.

The engineer who wrote the memo confirmed his dismissal saying that he had been fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes,” in an email to Reuters on Monday.

Damore said he is “currently exploring all possible legal remedies.”

Google said it could not talk about individual employee cases.

“Distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership,” James wrote in an internal company memo last week.

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