Microsoft Uses US Women's Soccer Team To Explain Why It Doesn't Hire More Women

theodp writes: "It is not surprising that the U.S. women have been dominant in the sport [of soccer] in recent years. The explanation for that success lies in the talent pipeline," writes General Manager of Citizenship & Public Affairs Lori Forte Harnick on The Official Microsoft Blog. "Said another way, many girls in the U.S. have the opportunity to learn how to play soccer and, as a result, they benefit from the teamwork, skill development and fun involved. That's the kind of opportunity I would like to see develop for the technology sector, which presents a different, yet perhaps even more significant, set of opportunities for girls and young women. Unfortunately, the strength in the talent pipeline that we see in female soccer today is not the reality for technology. The U.S. is facing a shortage of Computer Science (CS) graduates. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, every year there are close to 140,000 jobs requiring a CS degree, but only 40,000 U.S. college graduates major in CS, which means that 100,000 positions go unfilled by domestic talent." Going with the soccer analogy, one thing FIFA realized that Microsoft didn't is that if you want girls to play your sport, you don't take away their ball!

Comments

Re:Interesting..

[jedidiah]

That probably doesn't keep SJWs from whining that there aren't enough women employed at Microsoft in IT.

You could poach the available talent pool AND all of the current college students and still come up short.

Re:Interesting..

[gweihir]

Indeed. The SJWs basically have a fascist mind-set. They want to force both genders to behave the same way, completely ignoring that the freedom to chose what you want to do with your life is an essential freedom. Hence what they want would produce nice statistics, but a dysfunctional and non-free society.