From Google To Yahoo, Tech Grapples With White Male Discontent (bloomberg.com)

Reader joshtops shares a Bloomberg report: Google isn't the only Silicon Valley employer being accused of hostility to white men. Yahoo and Tata Consultancy Services were already fighting discrimination lawsuits brought by white men before Google engineer James Damore ignited a firestorm -- and got himself fired -- with an internal memo criticizing the company's diversity efforts and claiming women are biologically less suited than men to be engineers. The Yahoo case began last year when two men sued, claiming they'd been unfairly fired after managers allegedly manipulated performance evaluations to favor women. They claim Marissa Mayer approved the review process and was involved in their terminations, and last month a judge ordered the former chief executive be deposed. TCS, meanwhile, is fighting three men who claim the Mumbai-based firm discriminates against non-Indians at its U.S. offices.

Comments

Re:"Discontent"

[green1]

But don't worry, discrimination against white males is socially acceptable.

Re:False representation/slander?

[harrkev]

I think that the bigger issue is that, generally, women are not as interested in tech jobs as guys are.

Women are 100% as capable as men in tech fields -- when they choose those fields. I have known some great women engineers.

However, women only make up approximately 20% of I.T. related degrees earned.

Re:Need vs Politics

[Baloroth]

Now try looking for Trans, PoC, etc Queer people - yeah. They barely exist.

That'd be because (aside from "PoC"), they do barely exist, at least in the US. It's well under a percent for trans people, and 1-2 percent queer/lesbian/gay. I haven't seen any studies on the topic, but I wouldn't be surprised to find they're actually overrepresented in the media (I can't find simple numbers with a quick Google search, but Wikipedia gives ~4% for regular broadcast TV characters, which is surprisingly close to the right fraction). And as for "PoC": they're again usually represented at around the expected demographic fraction (13% of movie characters vs. 13.6% of the population, for e.g.), except for IIRC Asians, who tend to be overrepresented, and Mexicans, who tend to be underrepresented.

Mind you, people will still complain because most people have no idea what the demographics in the US actually are (such as for e.g. this, admittedly quite dated, study), and for many special interests groups, that's a feature, not a bug. A news story of "only 3 of the 20 Oscar nominees are black!" gets clicks, "black actors slightly overrepresented at the Oscars" does not.