SAGE News Clips: Gender and Diversity in Silicon ValleyDescription: A male engineer at Google challenged Silicon Valley's efforts to promote workforce diversity in a memo blaming biological differences for the lack of female programmers in tech industries. The memo was circulated widely on tech blogs, and it attributes biological differences between men and women to the reason why "we don't have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership." Google's head of diversity, Danielle Brown, responded with her own memo, saying that diversity and inclusion are critical to the company's success. The dueling memos come as Silicon Valley grapples with accusations of sexism and discrimination.Click on the above link to access the Interactive eBook. Once you've signed in, scroll to page 12 and
watch the video. When you've finished watching the video, come back to the test and answer the following questions:How is the Department of Labor responding to the controversy discussed in the video?
A. It is defending the Google engineer who wrote the initial memo.
B. It is defending Google's VP of diversity who wrote the countermemo.
C. It is investigating whether Google pays women less than men for doing the same job.
D. It is suing Google for discriminating against its female employees.
Answer: C
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