Except what you said about social constructs in your comment isn't argued in the memo, hence you're now projecting about "selective interpretation."
Nobody is saying this isn't in context to hiring policies - that's your straw man. Damore was arguing that women were not in engineering and leadership positions because of preferences and biological abilities (in support of his memo's argument about hiring policies). The latter of which there is no evidence to support.
> Nobody is saying this isn't in context to hiring policies - that's your straw man.
You're evaluating the statement that way. That's not a straw man--it's removal of original context.
> Damore was arguing that women were not in engineering and leadership positions because of preferences and biological abilities (in support of his memo's argument about hiring policies).
Yet another example of the suspiciously common inability of opponents to comprehend the statement.
The statement makes no mention of biological abilities, only distribution of abilities in general (and preferences), caused possibly in part by biological factors.
And once again: The relevant group is the hiring pool for leadership / tech at Google, which undoubtedly has an unequal distribution of qualified men and women as a result of differing distributions of the abilities of men and women at that stage of their careers.
Here's Damore's statement again, with the context from the purpose of the document added by me:
> I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women (by the time they can be affected by Google's hiring policies) differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.
Tah-dah! When it's not stripped of context, the meaning is more clear. I still don't suspect misinterpretations will stop, though.
No evidence? The number of women who leave their career to become full-time childcare givers far out number men, even among women in high level career tracks.
Nobody is saying this isn't in context to hiring policies - that's your straw man. Damore was arguing that women were not in engineering and leadership positions because of preferences and biological abilities (in support of his memo's argument about hiring policies). The latter of which there is no evidence to support.