In fact, the very idea of there being evolved psychological differences between the sexes has become so taboo in some circles that even voicing the possibility is taken to be an indication of anti-feminist sentiment. In 2017, Google engineer James Damore circulated an internal memo in which he suggested that the under-representation of women at Google might partly be a consequence of (in his words) ‘differences in distributions of traits between men and women’.24 The scientific research that Damore cited was perfectly sound, but he was nevertheless fired for violating Google’s code of conduct,
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