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What Intel's $300 Million Diversity Pledge Really Means
itwbennett writes Intel's Rosalind Hudnell is responsible for implementing the company's much-publicized $300 million initiative to bring more women and under-represented minorities into its workforce by 2020. But even with Intel's renewed commitment to diversity, the company's workforce will still be just about 32 percent women in five years, Hudnell estimated. Here's a rough breakdown of how the money will be spent: The funds will be applied over five years to change hiring practices, retool human resources, fund companies run by minorities and women, and promote STEM education in high schools.
Let's hire less white males!
... The fashion industry needs more straight men. I'm all for increasing stem programs for high school. But don't be bigoted about it. Let everyone participate. And if women don't want to go into tech by choice... Get the fuck over it.
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In this construction it would be "fewer" not "less."
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How brave of you, rushing to defend the status quo with uninformed opinions.
If you remove identifying information from resumes before they get to hiring managers, diversity goes *up*. Which means that we haven't been hiring the best and the brightest. We've been hiring those who are similar to us. There are many hiring and HR practices that when changed, do improve diversity.
Not just that, but as Neil de Grasse Tyson said about being black and in STEM, who was left behind? Who was told, "No don't focus on STEM, go play sports go do something else, you're black, STEM's not for you." So all of the money being invested in education is also going to mean is to try to stop the meme that, "you're a girl you shouldn't get into STEM. Go into arts or history or become a homemaker."
To suggest that the current status quo is acceptable is ignorant, if not dangerous.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
No, it means committed to not discriminating against the best qualified candidate if they are not a white male.
Since no one has ever been able to even fake some data showing that white males as a whole are more qualified, having a disproportionate number of white males means that qualified candidates have been overlooked.
For those too lazy to read that study - it doesn't support the OP's point that women are discriminated against. Read it and see.
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.