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an internal document at Google is causing controversy according to motherboard a document entitled Google's ideological echo chamber has been circulating within the company the 10 page document was written by a Google software engineer and it is the personal opinion of that engineer Gizmodo published a post in its entirety in the memo the author says women are underrepresented in technology partially due to biological reasons quote I'm simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in parts due to biological causes and these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership the document went on to say we also need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism reports say the memo was met with negative feedback by a majority of the employees who've seen it Google is currently being investigated by the US Department of Labor for systematically paying its female employees less than it pays men the company also issued an internal response to the memo which was obtained by motherboard the response was written by Google's vice president of diversity integrity and governance danielle brown in it she says part of building an open inclusive environment means fostering a culture in which those with alternative views including different political views feel safe sharing their opinions but that discourse needs to work alongside the principles of equal employment found in our code of conduct policies and anti-discrimination laws for more coverage check out cnet.com Amaya's Akhtar and I'll see you online