Google 🌍 sacks employee who authored anti-diversity memo

Internet 💻 giant Google 🌍, fired the engineer at the centre of an uproar 🔊 in the Silicon Valley over the past week after he authored ✎ an internal memo asserting there are biological causes behind gender inequality in the tech industry.

James Damore, the engineer who wrote ✎ the memo, confirmed his dismissal 🚫, saying in an email to the Reuters news agency on Monday that he had been fired 🚫 for "perpetuating gender stereotypes".

Damore said he was exploring 🔎 all possible legal remedies, and that before being fired, he had submitted a charge to the US 🇺🇸 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), accusing Google 🌍 upper management of trying to shame him into silence.

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