Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on diversity/inclusion efforts in tech?
by belorn on Saturday February 08, 2020 @07:46PM
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I strongly doubt that the kind of skin deep diversity that people do does any good. The most similar attributes I see in tech is not gender or race, but rather aspects like health, wealth, social status, and age.
As an example, 60% of the total population has a chronic diseases. You won't find many in the technology industry that want to imagine that. Accessibility is an almost forgotten concept, and most people if forced to think about accessability can only imagine concepts like blindness, deafness, and wheelchairs. The wast majority of those 60% does not have either of those and are basically invisible in the thought process when people produce solutions and products.
As an example, 60% of the total population has a chronic diseases. You won't find many in the technology industry that want to imagine that. Accessibility is an almost forgotten concept, and most people if forced to think about accessability can only imagine concepts like blindness, deafness, and wheelchairs. The wast majority of those 60% does not have either of those and are basically invisible in the thought process when people produce solutions and products.