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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by hollerith on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:10PM (#42659588)
Is there? The CEOs of Microsoft and Google are Asians who did not even grow up in the US.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by UncleMeat on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:30PM (#42659812)
Specific examples don't overcome the overall statistics.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by rufus_foreman on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:48PM (#42660013)
"bamboo ceiling" is not a statistic.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by UncleMeat on Friday January 10, 2025 @06:02PM (#42661343)
Underrepresentation of south and east asians in leadership roles is, though.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by dijit on Sunday January 12, 2025 @05:55AM (#42672652)
Do you have anything to back that up with, as far as I understood it Indian CEOs are responsible for significantly higher percentage of market valuations than their population percentage in the US.

Palo Alto Networks & Arista, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, IBM, Netapp, Micron... Even World Bank has an Indian CEO.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by cyberax on Friday January 10, 2025 @06:20PM (#42661514)
Can you provide the stats? I'm looking at the BLS data and I don't really see anything relevant.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by code_biologist on Friday January 10, 2025 @05:29PM (#42661003)
Those CEOs are great examples, because they show the operative power networks are things like being a Brahmin or a McKinsey alum. I see less evidence for power networks based on race, or those power networks are doing less.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by RestlessMind on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:06PM (#42662317)
> operative power networks are things like being a Brahmin

eh, what? Why would US corporate culture give a shit about Hindu castes? Google and Microsoft boards appointed Sundar and Satya, but I don't think those boards could tell a Brahmin from a non-Brahmin.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by myroon5 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:30AM (#42754317)
seems myopic to focus on final promotions in decades-long world-class careers
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by hollerith on Sunday January 12, 2025 @01:28AM (#42671695)
> operative power networks are things like being a Brahmin

What evidence do you have that Sundar or Satya used any power network to progress in their career?

Could it not be that being a Brahmin in India was not all that promising to an ambitious young Indian man and in response he decided to start fresh in another country where he had very little in the way of useful network connections?

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