Google’s Sundar Pichai cancels internal meeting on gender issues in light of online harassment concerns

Google’s Sundar Pichai cancels internal meeting on gender issues in light of online harassment concerns

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https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/10/google-sundar-pichai-cancels-meeting-on-gender-issues-in-light-of-online-harassment-concerns/

Google CEO Sundar Pichai was expected to hold an all-hands meeting this afternoon in light of now-former Google engineer James Damore’s post about differences between men and women. Shortly before it was scheduled to start, Pichai sent out a note to employees letting them know it’s cancelled, Recode reports.

Some employees reportedly expressed fear that they’d be targets of online harassment if they were to speak up and ask questions in the town hall.