Facebook’s diversity efforts show little progress after five years

Re:Facebook’s diversity efforts show little progress after f... by eezurr on Thursday July 12, 2018 @01:30PM (#17516786)

This is slightly off topic, but are their any numbers on what percentage of [women, black, hispanic, white, men etc] WANT to sit in front of a computer and program all day? I think we need those numbers in order truly measure diversity progress. [1]

If only 10% (made up number) of women are interested in software development, and 95% of that 10% are working in software, that's good! Looking at all women and saying only 9.5% of women are working in software misrepresents all the progress has been made.

[1] Why these numbers would be different for each class of people is a whole different conversation involving nature/nurture/culture/etc.

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Re:Facebook’s diversity efforts show little progress after f... by ryanmercer on Thursday July 12, 2018 @01:40PM (#17516881)

https://www.usnews.com/news/data-mine/articles/2016-10-20/st...

"In 1984, 37 percent of computer science majors were women, but by 2014 that number had dropped to 18 percent"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit...

"The White, non-Hispanic or Latino population make up 61.3% of the nation's total, with the total White population (including White Hispanics and Latinos) being 76.9%"

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