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US Won't Say How Many H-1B Workers Are Female (computerworld.com)
dcblogs quotes a report from Computerworld: When the U.S. begins accepting applications for new H-1B skilled-worker visas today, we can be certain that tech workers from India will make up a large portion of the requests. While program data shows which job categories, countries and companies are awarded the most visas, the federal government says it is not tracking applicants' gender -- although the question is asked on the visa application form. The U.S. begins accepting H-1B visa applications on April 1 for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) will not release the gender data. It has rejected a Senate request for the information, as well as public records requests from the IEEE-USA and Computerworld. The Anita Borg Institute, which advocates for women in technology, believes "it would be very helpful to have better data on the gender diversity of H-1B visa recipients," said Telle Whitney, the president and CEO of the institute. "Our anecdotal experience is that most H-1B visa recipients are men and that this can have a negative impact on increasing the participation of women in the technical workforce," she said.
They might accidentally do a good thing here.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I am more worried on the gender breakdown of US workers displaced by the H-1Bs.
Always funny when feminists go off track and bark at their masters. We get "diversity" forced down our throats by the same people who fight to keep their important Indians male.
"Gender data is a curious omission considering U.S. government initiatives such as TechWomen, which is aimed at supporting "women in leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East"."
You'd almost think policy was carefully designed to attack white men rather than help women.
Just to keep people informed, note that Bernie Sanders and Marco Rubio voted to increase H1B visas last round (2013).
Ted Cruz voted against, and (of course) neither Clinton nor Trump could vote.
Here's a quote from [Facebook VP] Joel Kaplan:
"This is a big step forward for jobs, innovation, and the American economy," Facebook's vice president of U.S. policy Joel Kaplan said in a statement e-mailed to CNET. "We've been talking with members for months about what the technology industry needs to remain competitive and this bill shows that they listened and they get it."
More worrying is how many of these H1b people exhibit microaggressive behavior? We need to screen them so we can create inclusive safe spaces for our tech workers.
Just throw all the names at gender.c and you will have reasonably reliable data. That's 5 minutes of scripting for a sysadmin in the private sector, although I guess more like 5 million dollars worth of government work.
Telle Whitney is interested in the genitalia of tech workers.
American H1B employers are interested in the competence of tech workers.
One can see how they might not see things the same way.
( And the feminazi institute is really called "Borg" ?! )
What the heck is going on? Whose side is President Obama on? The heads of most countries work to help their citizens get jobs. The one exception that I see is that come countries are taking in refugees, even if those refugees take jobs away from native-born citizens.
But these H-1B employees aren't refugees. They won't starve if they don't get a job here, or be killed by gang violence if they can't live here.
Whose side is Pres. Obama on?
Why do people care so much about the lack of women in tech but don't seem to care at all about the lack of women or men in other fields? And even when they do pretend to care in other fields there is only a push to hire more women in general in various roles but never an explicit push to put them in exactly the same dangerous jobs that are still filled by 99% males.
but I've got a solution for both. We could (and I'm just floating ideas here) not screw over either demographic. I know it's crazy to think like that. Perhaps I've already said too much.
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they're very, very good at the specific task they're brought in for. That's the point. You don't have to train people. You don't have to worry about their long term well being. The come in ready to go for that one specific thing you need done, do it, and leave. No training costs. No retraining costs. No muss, no fuss. That's what makes them so desirable. You get specialty labor of the sort contractors used to charge $500/hr for at less than 1/20th the price. Lowering American tech Wages overall is just icing on the cake...
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Since Hillary has taken nearly $3Million in, ahem, donations from Tata and Infosys you can be sure there'll be plenty of new data available as the foreign workers pour in.
Source: http://articles.latimes.com/20...
Snip:
Clinton is successfully wooing wealthy Indian Americans, many of them business leaders with close ties to their native country and an interest in protecting outsourcing laws and expanding access to worker visas. Her campaign has held three fundraisers in the Indian American community recently, one of which raised close to $3 million, its sponsor told an Indian news organization.
Women are just not as creatively aggressive as men. By imposing a quota for women H1-B workers in high tech, the entire purpose of H1-B visas is destroyed and American preeminence in technology would be threatened. Simple as that.
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Where are you going that you need to be led?
That is exactly how it is everywhere else too.
The trouble with the H-1B visa program is that it is dishonest. They *claim* it is a means to get the "best and brightest" but that is not who they hire through it. As a matter of fact, they oppose any sort of quality standards. They refuse to interview able and willing USA citizen professionals, but claim they just cannot find any *qualified* (wink wink nudge nudge) applicants. They won't say exactly what "qualified" means, but it certainly does not mean "able and willing to do the job". But, if you are from the 3rd world and you once did something via the web which triggered a data-base look-up you must be a genius, must be both best and brightest, even if you don't know object->relation migration from object-relationship modeling language, or 3rd normal form relational from hierarchical. Whereas the USA candidate who redesigned and implemented a massive logistics system couldn't possibly do a job using a toy rdbms that any half-bright HS student could figure out with a couple hours of effort, because only if he'd used that exact brand and version on the job for 2-3 years could he possibly manage to make mods or create new reports. IOW it is all DC lobbyist malarkey. There never was a skills shortage or "gap", just a tissue of lies to fool the willing media and the gullible coasters -- East and West -- and give the pols and executives a bit of cover for the cuts in training, relocation, and churn of noobs.