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Microsoft Blames Layoffs For Drop In Female Employees (cio.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the justify-a-particular-number dept.

itwbennett writes: This year, women made up 26.8 percent of Microsoft's total workforce, down from 29 percent in 2014, the company reported Monday. In a blog post discussing the numbers, Gwen Houston, Microsoft's general manager of diversity and inclusion, pointed the finger at the thousands of layoffs the company made to restructure its phone hardware business: 'The workforce reductions resulting from the restructure of our phone hardware business ... impacted factory and production facilities outside the U.S. that produce handsets and hardware, and a higher percentage of those jobs were held by women,' she said.

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  1. Re:OMFG! by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · · Score: 4, Informative

    OMFG! There was a fluctuation of 2.2 percent in the female employees of a major corporation that has bizzilions of employees that come and go!

    The larger the corporation, and the less turnover it has in general, the more significant a small number is. If there are 49 employees, a 2.2% fluctuation is someone quitting. If there were 2 million employees, with say, 20% layoffs, that a 2.2% reduction between gender groups is extremely significant (p

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  2. Re:I want quality, not politics by JackieBrown · · Score: 3, Informative

    FreeBSD has FreeBSD girl aka Randi Harper https://twitter.com/freebsdgir...

    She is not only a woman but an awful SJW attacker. FreeBSD's support of her cause in many discussion list entries is what caused my business to stop our annual donations and migrate >5k hosts over to Linux. Won't disclose the donation amount because that would likely make me identifiable

    I don't blame you. I just googled her and she is pretty terrifying, cold, and heartless.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...

    I skipped on the article and started on the list of her victims. Most of those people are people that I'd consider left leaning, but I would not wish what she did on them or anyone. She really has no problem destroying anyone even those that mainly agree with her.