Google distances itself from email decrying diversity efforts

When a solitary employee pounds out an internal memo at most organizations,
it seldom elicits Twitter hashtags and category-five news coverage.
But when that organization is Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and the topic is
gender inequality in the tech industry, the ensuing worldwide fireworks
forced the organization to respond.
In the
memo—which is drawing furious pushback on social media and the press—a male
software engineer questioned Google’s diversity efforts and suggested