Re:Donations and Women in Tech Panels Are Not a Diversity St...
by edblarney on Thursday February 23, 2017 @01:51PM
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Females in tech in front-line positions roughly match the number of those graduating with relevant education.
It'd rather seem that the primary argument to 'diversity' should be 'getting more women to study the relevant things'.
Though: surveys show that women in tech see the #1 issue is 'lack of role models' - ergo - a degree of feedback here, but really ... I firmly believe that if 50% of Comp Sci grads were women, that roughly 50% of Google Engs would be female.
Caveat: in management positions there is a totally separate spate of issues.
Also - similar issues apply to ethnicity. Tech is about 30% Asian, and very few African Americans or Latinos, which is again commensurate with the pool of graduating talent. Again there are clearly feedback issues - nevertheless - one cannot ignore this white elephant.
It'd rather seem that the primary argument to 'diversity' should be 'getting more women to study the relevant things'.
Though: surveys show that women in tech see the #1 issue is 'lack of role models' - ergo - a degree of feedback here, but really ... I firmly believe that if 50% of Comp Sci grads were women, that roughly 50% of Google Engs would be female.
Caveat: in management positions there is a totally separate spate of issues.
Also - similar issues apply to ethnicity. Tech is about 30% Asian, and very few African Americans or Latinos, which is again commensurate with the pool of graduating talent. Again there are clearly feedback issues - nevertheless - one cannot ignore this white elephant.