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Silicon Valley Still Wrestling With Diversity Issues
An anonymous reader writes: As major tech companies come under increased scrutiny over the diversity of their workforces, many of them are focusing solely on the "pipeline" of workers educated in a computer-related field. They're pouring resources into getting kids to code, setting up internships, and even establishing mentoring programs for underrepresented groups. But experts say they're still failing to root out their own internal biases when making hiring decisions. "That bias shows up in recruiting, with companies drawing from the same top universities, where black and Hispanic graduates are still lagging behind other groups. ... The problem is particularly acute at start-ups, where black founders are just 1 percent of venture-invested firms, according to a 2011 survey by CB Insights." The tech companies are under mounting pressure to solve this problem, and the solutions they're pursuing won't show results quickly.
This is patently untrue. The Blacks and Hispanics combined make 3% of the tech workforce, but do make over 30% of the remainder. If it were that much of a chore to fire minorities wouldn't the issue present itself in lower paying jobs as well?
There is no evidence to support that it is hard to fire minority employees. Please do not make things up.
Based on upvotes, Ageism is the only "-ism" Slashdotters care about and think isn't SJW
Have you been living under a rock? There have been SCOTUS cases about this. Yes, colleges and universities lower their standards for African Americans and have stricter requirements for Asian Americans. And the African Americans that are admitted are served poorly by this kind of affirmative action: they do worse than if they had gone to lesser institutions and (apparently) don't get hired at the same rates afterwards either.
http://priceonomics.com/post/4...
Why don't you tone down your own racist banter and get some facts?
...but make up 1% of most top SV hires.
Tech jobs: Minorities have degrees, but don't get hired
This article is comparing graduation rates today with a labor pool hired over the last 30 years. The fair comparison would be to look at only new hires directly from universities. But the author is likely more interested in pushing an agenda than in presenting the facts.
What do you have against discussing a problem
The lack of any evidence that said problem actually exists. Start with a survey of what jobs women and men actually prefer doing. That's the first step in empirically proving that sexism exists, but feminists refuse to do such research because it will debunk their anecdotal claims. Norway knows what's up. The most equal countries in the world have greater gender differences, esp. in job selection. What you're calling a "problem" is the fact that women have more freedom to express their choice in job preference. I suppose your "solution" would be less choice, maybe forcing women and men into jobs they do not want? Something akin to Communism? (indeed, here we reveal the true nature of the social justice warrior beast) Behavioural differences between men and women are cross-cultural (meaning: not socialized).
In short: There is no evidence a problem exists. Should we be hemming and hawing over the alleged existence of a teapot orbiting between here and Mars? Never mind that there is no evidence for its existence, let's waste time discussing the question of who could have put it there? Just because SJW whines about something that allegedly affects women doesn't mean we should engage our gynocentric bias and suddenly declare that correlation is suddenly causation. Hint: The SJW does not want to admit that any "issues facing women" have been addressed, as this means their job is over. For instance, see how SJW "rape culture" hysteria has removed an alarming amount of due process. According to SJWs none of the drastic changes we have made has done anything to cure the problem they claim still exists -- they seek MORE erosion of rights to address their baseless accusations.
In other words: Once you pay the Danegeld, you will never be rid of the Dane.
P.S. The wage gap hasn't existed in over half a decade.
The root of the problem isn't what you seem to think it is. The root of the problem is that guys like you continue to push bullshit like
Women like to help. They'll help people, animals, forests, the environment, etc. But in general, they're not interested in working with machines.
Women, it was once believed, didn't have the constitution to be doctors. Women, it was once held true, didn't possess the analytical minds required for a career in the law. Women could do without your sexist arse telling them what they are and aren't, and what they can and can't do.
Gender studies promotes the idea that men and women are exactly the same except for our genitalia. This assertion or hypothesis hasn't been shown true by actual science conducted by biologists. In fact, studies by actual biologists show the opposite. The brain controls hormone levels. The amount of testosterone in the bloodstream effects whether a child is interested in traditionally male-oriented or female-oriented toys. This is has been shown true for children as young as one day old. That's before a child has any chance of getting corrupted by societal influences.
Further, studies across 53 societies show that as cultures grow more egalitarian and allow men and women to do whatever job they like, we actually see more men doing traditionally male jobs and more women doing traditionally female jobs. It's only in less equal societies where men and women face unequal choices of work where we see men and women doing largely the same kinds of work. Were the differences in preference of job only a difference in culture, then we should also see different results in different cultures. That isn't the case. When given the choice, men almost always prefer traditionally male jobs and women traditionally female jobs. That suggests a biological difference between the preferences of men and women for the kind of work they prefer to do.
Here's a good video on these facts. Although, whoever posted the video to Youtube definitely should have chosen a better title. I suggest watching the whole thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...