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What Intel's $300 Million Diversity Pledge Really Means

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-does-it-buy? dept.

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.

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  1. What it means: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Let's hire less white males!

  2. Tech needs more women like... by Karmashock · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... 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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  3. Re:What it means: by Chess_the_cat · · Score: 3, Informative

    In this construction it would be "fewer" not "less."

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  4. Re:What it means: by goose-incarnated · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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