性生活是什么感觉

The screed from the (since fired) Google engineer James Damore that was making the rounds evoked a familiar "Not this again!" response from me. For myself (and other female engineers), it reeked of the veiled slander that I've been hearing ever since I decided to study engineering. 

"Why did you take an engineering seat? You're just going to get married and drop out, you're depriving a man of a livelihood" and "Women are not meant to code" and "Sit over there, way at the back, let the boys sit in front" were just a few of the statements that were casually dropped at college and the workplace, although none of my co-workers were stupid enough to write any of this down. One worthy (let's call him Anon) was particularly vocal about why women were only suited for household chores but even he did not make a document and circulate it. It was just not worth his time.

They say that living well is the best revenge. I thought that the best response to the infamous anti- diversity manifesto that James Damore penned at Google would be to tell you how we have benefited at Grow Fit by doing exactly the opposite, by having a diverse team of varied talents. 

By any standard, we' re quite the melting pot. Not just gender but variations in age and skillset make working at Grow Fit tremendously productive. We have doctors, engineers, food technologists, chefs, writers, millenials, parents, marathoners, dog-lovers, cat-owners and more. About half our workforce is women and all of these women have master's degrees in STEM disciplines. 

 My life has been enriched immensely from exposure to a constant stream of ideas and opinions. I've learned to like horror movies, been diagnosed with trypophobia, tried to make sense of rapid-fire Hindi conversations, received advice how to make sense of my teenager and more. It's not a coincidence that Grow Fit itself is at the meeting point of many disciplines, from medicine to engineering.

I won't tell you what the studies say about diversity and company performance. For that you can look at studies by think tanks galore. As a CEO, diversity is a productivity hack that I cannot ignore.

The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine. And so I go to sleep peacefully knowing content that James Damore will be paid in full. That's exactly what happened to the chap, Anon, who was the most vociferous about the unfitness of women to be at work. He later married a PhD and they were blessed with daughters.

You see, we are all humans. And when we exclude others, we hurt ourselves.