谷歌首席执行官Sundar Pichai今天在谷歌校园为女孩举行的编码活动上发言，强调工程师“为世界上每个人**产品”的重要性，并表示为了做到这一点，“我们需要在内部拥有代表整个世界的人。”

“我想让你知道你在这个行业有一席之地，”皮查伊对那些在长达数月的应用程序开发竞赛中进入决赛的年轻**说谷歌有你的位置。别让别人告诉你别的。你属于这里，我们需要你。”

在一位软件工程师发布了一份与多元化相关的备忘录后，皮查伊的言论尤其值得关注，因为这一言论与谷歌目前正在发生的争议并列在一起，该备忘录在公司内部和公共领域都广为传播。这份备忘录的作者质疑谷歌的多元化培训和**的编码能力，此后被公司解雇，并向国家劳动关系委员会（National Labor Relati*** Board）提出申诉。

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皮查伊的公开露面也是在谷歌取消了一次公司范围的市政厅会议之后举行的，这次会议原本是为了解决备忘录的一些影响。据Recode的一份报告称，会议被取消了，因为发送初步问题的员工开始在网上受到骚扰。

皮查伊说：“让更多的**和女孩有机会参与科技，学习如何编码、创造和创新，这一点非常重要。”。

今晚的编码活动由总部位于洛杉矶的非营利组织irisenclearning共同主办，该组织在过去几年中一直在举办Technovation竞赛。谷歌提供了各种教育机会，专注于编码，就像许多其他大型科技公司一样；这项活动是其针对年轻**的“代码**”计划的一部分。

当然，与科技公司提供的其他研讨会、编码营和计划一样，他们中的许多人仍在努力创建真正多样化的工作场所，正如他们自愿提交的年度报告所示。而谷歌也因其工资记录被美国劳工部起诉，美国劳工部指控谷歌没有公平地向**员工支付工资。

Pichai的完整评论如下：

Thank you all for joining, it's a pleasure to be here tonight with many creators, coders, and budding entrepreneurs. I think as Google we are really proud to host the event, but I really want to thank … the organizers and the mentors who spent hundreds of hours to get the teams ready for today.

Seeing the girls here tonight gives me hope for the future.

At Google, we are very committed to building products for everyone in the world, and I think to do that well we really need to have people internally who represent the world in totality. And that's how we think about it. So it's really important that more women and girls have the opportunity to participate in technology, to learn how to code, create, and innovate.

We participate in a lot of things. We work with more than 4,000 schools to help introduce over 700,000 students to computer science. We do many efforts around the world. In India we do a program by which we have volunteers who go to over 300,000 villages — often on bicycles — teaching women how to get online for the very first time. We launched the Women Techmakers program, which has provided scholarships and training and helps people attend conferences. We have done it for more than 50,000 people in the technology industry. And that's why we are also proud to host the Technovation Challenge.

I was surprised to find the girls here represent more than 100 countries from around the world. I think they've been chosen from over 11,000 girls. I think my job sometimes is hard, but I can't even imagine the judges who had to choose from all those wonderful, wonderful participants to get the winners here.

To all of the girls tonight, I want to say thank you for joining us at Google. I hope it's the beginning of a long career of building amazing things which we can all use one day.

I know the journey won't always be easy, but to the girls who dream of being an engineer or an entrepreneur, and who dream of creating amazing things: I want you to know that there's a place for you in this industry, there's a place for you at Google. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. You belong here and we need you.

Thank you all so much and congratulati*** once again.