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Amazon Releases (Not Many) Details On Its Workforce Demographics
theodp (442580) writes Late to the table on disclosing workforce demographics, Amazon posted a diversity report to its website on Halloween, revealing that its global work force is 63% male and 37% female, while in the U.S., its work force is 60% white, 15% black, 13% Asian and 9% Hispanic. More lacking in granular detail than the less-than-transparent diversity data provided by its tech peers, Rainbow PUSH said Amazon's numbers were not as good as they appeared, and criticized the company for a lack of candor. "Their general work force data released by Amazon seems intentionally deceptive, as the company did not include the race or gender breakout of their technical work force," PUSH said in a statement. "The broad assumption is that a high percentage of their black and Latino employees work in their warehouses." Following the lead of other tech companies, Diversity at Amazon suggests the e-tailer's undisclosed-but-presumed lack of tech diversity could be blamed on "female students and students of color [who] are opting out of technology and engineering" as early as middle school and high school. Taking a page from Google's playbook, Amazon pointed to its involvement with the Anita Borg Institute, Code.org, Girls Who Code, and the National Center for Women & Information Technology as ways the company's addressing tech diversity deficiencies.
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I've always wondered how we can have "equality" and "diversity" at the same time like liberals demand? Does a black person == a white person? Does tall == short? Some people are born with more smarts than others, does that mean stupid people need a handicap and compensation? Again that would be assuring equality they demand.
Everyone brings their own skill set. The shittiest kids have come from the best parents, the best kids from the worst parents. Yet we all must be equal. But oh no wait we also need to be diverse, but only diverse enough that all pay, all merit, everything is exactly the same for everyone. Capitalists earn their profit by producing value for someone else. Liberals earn their keep by guilt trips, privileged white feminist rage, blind "throw money at it" "solutions", and screaming so loud the government "legally" takes money from one entity and gives to another.