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HR Chief: Google Sexual, Racial Diversity "Not Where We Want to Be"
theodp (442580) writes "In 2007, Congress asked Google, "How many [Google employees] are African-American?" "I don't actually have that data at my fingertips," replied Google HR Chief Laszlo Bock. Seven years later, Google finally disclosed diversity data for the first time ever, revealing that 17% of its tech workforce is female, and only 1% is Black. "Put simply," wrote Google's Bock, "Google is not where we want to be when it comes to diversity." To put things in perspective, it looks like the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers — commemorated in last year's Google Doodle of Jackie Robinson — put up better Black diversity numbers than Google was able to muster 67 years later. Things could have been worse, but the EEOC doesn't ask for and Google chose not to disclose anything about the age makeup of its workforce, aside from a mention of the existence of Greyglers, a group "for Googlers 'of a certain age.'""
There is no shame in being a man with less empathy than a woman, and no shame in being a woman with more empathy than a man.
Being a man with more empathy than a woman is shameful though.
Yeah i'm talking to you faux hawk toting, crying during movie metro douches.
What happened to hiring the best person for the job?
I totally agree. Companies should always want the best man for the job, regardless of gender.
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What percentage of Google's employees are Indian or Chinese? I'm guessing it's higher than the national average. But they aren't "special" important minorities so they presumably don't count.
No because they can count!
Race is just a social construct. Race doesn't exist. That's why we need affirmative action. To destroy the White race. Diversity is our Strength!
It's just the Irish Catholics because they are drunks.
I remember seeing an article in the Mercury News with a headline to the effect of "whites still far outnumber blacks at Cal." It included a pie of the different races, roughly half of which were Asian.
I once took an excursion to Reddit, and later HN. Unlimited up/down voting sucks when dealing with a hive-mind.
Ahh.. the one upsmanship of sexism. What fun!
It reminds me of an old joke. During WWII a high ranking Soviet official walks out of a meeting with Stalin, obviously upset, muttering under his breath "Mustached asshole!". The secretary overhears him, and goes in and tells Stalin he just heard the official mutter "Mustached asshole!". Stalin calls in the official and asks him "Comrade, Who were you referring to when you said "Mustached asshole"? The official without hesitation says "I was referring to Hitler of course!". Stalin thanks him and calls the secretary in, asking her "And who did YOU think he was referring to, comrade?"
AccountKiller
How's Google supposed to do that? Pay girls to pretend to be interested in something they're not?
Paying girls to be pretend to be interested in something they're not is the oldest profession in the world...
That industry has gone the way of the IT industry...
It used to be very lucrative, great hourly rates were available to the best in the field. Now there's been an influx of eastern europeans, and customers have discovered they can order cheaper options from the far east...
Sigs are so 1990s. No way would I be seen dead with one.