Fired! Why Google's Controversial Firing Has Blown Up!

A HUGE can of worms has just been opened in Silicon Valley.

As tech companies work to increase the diversity of their ranks, a 10-page document allegedly written by a Google engineer — purporting to explain why more women aren’t engineers — is adding fresh fuel to the fiery debate around gender bias in Silicon Valley.

Given the nickname the “Google Manifesto” by people online, the author, who was allegedly an engineer at Google, claims women don’t handle stress as well as men so they aren’t suited to demanding jobs. He also cites biological reasons for the disparity.

“I am just kind of tired of it,” said Cate Huston, a former Google engineer. “These things keep happening and the details change but the substantive portion of it is that women shouldn’t be engineers and we aren’t welcome.”

The document, which was first reported by Motherboard and published in full by Gizmodo over the weekend, comes as Silicon Valley is grappling with how to fix its bro culture after a number of headline-grabbing stories this year.