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Re:Getting to work on diversity at Google by bh3244 on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @08:24PM (#7813891)
why is diversity good? forced diversity seems very contrived. why should the percentage of women hired be higher than the number that graduate from school with a CS degree?
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Re:Getting to work on diversity at Google by namenotrequired on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @08:42PM (#7813944)
>why should the percentage of women hired be higher than the number that graduate from school with a CS degree?

No one is implying that it should. From the blog they seem to be working on improving the latter number too.

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Re:Getting to work on diversity at Google by frozenport on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @08:44PM (#7813948)
>>why is diversity good?

I want there to be more women whom I can date.

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