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Facebook Makes Little Progress in Race and Gender Diversity (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader shares a Reuters report: Facebook has said about one-third of its workers are female, while black employees accounted for 3% of its US senior leadership, both numbers only slightly higher than a year earlier. The data released by the world's largest social network on Thursday reflects the scant progress made by Silicon Valley heavyweights in making their workplaces more diverse in the face of criticism for having mostly white, male workers. Last month, Alphabet's Google released data on diversity, saying it had more black, Latino and female employees but still lagged its goal of mirroring the population. Women represented 33% of Facebook's global workforce, according to data from 30 June, compared with 32% a year earlier. Women held 27% of senior leadership roles, up from last year's 23%.
... is these shitty tax evading behemoths running themselves into the ground trying to constrain equality of outcome instead of equality of opportunity.
Facebook has 13,000 employees. What the F do they all do? What do they need 13,000 employees for?
I guess this is what they tell bleeding heart liberals who have no real world experience and have not seen the actual results of affirmative action. I've worked in a University where I actually saw a black graduate student who got their BS in Computer Science from a predominately black college and was admitted into the post grad CS school to fill a quota. This grad student couldn't even act as a teachers aid, and ended up taking freshman level CS courses and failing them. But they still had a BS in computer science and an employer who hired a while candidate over them could be called racist. Talking to the faculty I found this was not an isolated incident.
For other examples of harm done by hiring that ignores real qualifications, see Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Loretta E. Lynch.
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