emily: james damore, an engineer, was recently fired at google for writing a memo in which he claimedt men are more biologically suited to computers than women. do you think that mistaken assumption or toxic assumption is part of the problem? melinda: i think we all have bias. i think that we need to get under the hood and figure out, how do you create change by designing it out of the system? and yes, i think if you are in one culture that looks a particular way, where it looks like only a white male can get ahead, who went to an ivy league university, you are going to bake more bias into the system. whereas if we design a system where there are different pathways in, we look at the environment, how to design it out. you look at how do you spawn innovation for women and women of color, you will start to actually change the system. emily: in the last few years, you have really recommitted to being a champion for women in technology, in particular. is there a specific moment or reason when you realized someone had to speak up for women in tech, and that that person could be you? melind