Tag: Gender Issues

Google's new head of diversity has rejected an internal commentary from an employee who suggested women don't get ahead in tech jobs because of biological differences. The dueling memos come as Silicon Valley grapples with accusations of sexism and discrimination and companies like Google, Facebook and Uber say they are trying to change. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Beltway Confidential

Michael Barone: Google’s Orwellian firing

Michael Barone · August 11, 2017 3:35 pm

Shut Up, They Explained

Adam Keiper · August 11, 2017 6:20 am

The candidate who dropped out was enrolled in the Navy SEAL Officer Assessment and Selection program. If she had completed the program, she would have faced an officer selection panel and the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL program, or BUD/S, a six-month training course for the elite special operators.

National Security

Candidate to be first female Navy SEAL officer quits after a week: report

Travis J. Tritten · August 10, 2017 9:17 pm

President Trump dismissed the investigation into his administration's possible collusion with Russia as a "witch hunt." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Trump: I’m doing military ‘great favor’ by banning transgender people

Josh Siegel · August 10, 2017 9:13 pm

Tolerance, diversity, nondiscrimination, equality, and accommodation cannot all make absolute demands at the same time. (iStock)

At Google and in academia, liberal pieties clash

Washington Examiner · August 10, 2017 4:01 am

Many took to social media to criticize Serena Williams' remarks for being retrogressive and insensitive to women who cannot or choose not to give birth.

Serena Williams faces backlash for saying that giving birth will make her ‘a real woman’

Naomi Lim · August 10, 2017 1:29 am

The latest gender scandal comes from Google, where now-former employee James Damore wrote his infamous 10-page memo on the company's diversity policy. The memo itself is not scandalous, but you wouldn't know that from the media coverage or online outrage in response. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Beltway Confidential

Google it: men and women are different, and that’s okay

Hadley Heath Manning - contributor · August 9, 2017 8:06 pm

In light of Google's self-parodying firing of a worker who criticized the tech company for not allowing alternative thoughts, please forgive me for sharing some of the things I believe despite the counter-ethos of the cowardly, vengeful Left. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Beltway Confidential

On Google, diversity, facts, and our differences

Quin Hillyer · August 9, 2017 6:49 pm

Lawmakers react to President Trump's tweets announcing a ban on transgender people serving in the military. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Trump sued over his transgender military ban policy

Travis J. Tritten · August 9, 2017 3:04 pm

Beltway Confidential

New campaign aiming to broaden Democratic base will support pro-life candidates

Emily Jashinsky · August 9, 2017 2:00 am

WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange said on Tuesday that WikiLeaks is offering a job opportunity to the former Google employee who was fired after writing an internal memo condemning the technology company's approach to diversity. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

WikiLeaks founder offers job to Google employee fired over diversity memo

Matthew Trunko · August 8, 2017 10:42 pm

"In my dream of dreams, I'm still like, 'Hillary, maybe you'll run again!" (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

Actress Chloe Grace Moretz: Young girls deserve better role models than Melania and Ivanka Trump

Naomi Lim · August 8, 2017 9:24 pm