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Microsoft Blames Layoffs For Drop In Female Employees (cio.com)
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.
The useless employees were disproportionately female.
It's a difference of .2%, explained by any number of facts.
She is creating a mountain out of a molehill. What real value does she provide? I'd fire an employee in that position making a nonsense post like this without a second thought.
If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
The government just needs to hurry up already and set gender, race and religion requirements for employment at companies. Based on size and industry, you must employ certain percentages of each. Then they can pass a law alongside it making it easier to lay people off when it's being done to meet those requirements. Give every company two years to accomplish the change and extend unemployment to deal with the loss of jobs for some it will cause. As long as they make sure to give an exception to all unions, this should be perfectly fine.
We will then know that all companies are hiring fairly.