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So which of the aforementioned ceos do you believe is the token? Tim cook? Satya nadella?

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• coldtea 11y ago
  Obviously I DON'T believe CEOs are appointed as token minorities. First of all because the "non white straight male" CEOs are few and far between anyway, so it wouldn't give much advantage for your company to tout one when nobody expects you to (not to mention it could hurt in some bigoted demographics). But second, and most importantly, because those doing the appointing care very much for the actual performance of the CEO (which affects their bottom line) to just put a token person in its place. Whereas for lower positions, even managerial ones, they can appoint the token person here and there much more easily. I also don't believe a listing of 10 companies, especially without also enumerating also their whole boards, VCs, etc, is enough to make a point. Besides Asians/Indians are taken as non-threatening and a "safe choice" even by bigots in these days (there's a reverse stereotype associating them with IT). I'd like to see some blacks, latinos, etc into that list (which IIRC make for a huge percentage of the Californian population, but are totally missing even from the "top 10" list).