Anita Hill, Louise Matsakis On The Google Anti-Diversity Memo & Sexism In Tech

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 17, 2017

Louise Matsakis, an assistant editor at Motherboard, VICE's tech site, broke the story about James Damore’s controversial Google Anti-Diversity Memo. She discusses the memo itself, Danmore's firing, and the culture at Google and Silicon Valley at large. She's joined by Anita Hill, Of Counsel at the law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, who recently wrote an op-ed for The New York Times titled "Class Actions Could Fight Discrimination in Tech."

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