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And don't forget that killer quote from their internal presentation: "Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women" When diversity initiatives bec
by GuiA 11y ago
And don't forget that killer quote from their internal presentation:
"Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women"
When diversity initiatives become an "us vs them" discourse, everyone loses. Except for the fat cats with full wallets at the top, who have no issue with the plebe infighting as long as it's between themselves (see the not so subtly placed "this is not about socio economic class").
- connorshea 11y agoThat's not an internal presentation, it explicitly says it's "a diversity training talk held at a different company". She works for GitHub, but we don't have any evidence GitHub explicitly endorses those views.
- ccostes 11y agoHiring her to lead their diversity efforts doesn't count as endorsement of her views on diversity?
- mcardleliam 11y agoThey are views directly related to that persons job responsibilities. So Github endorses the views by hiring the person and putting the person in a leadership role. It would be different if the views were not directly related to the persons job responsibilities and policies of the company.
- mjbh7k 11y agoI've been seeing this discussion a lot lately, particularly in the publishing world. 79% of editors are white and 78% are women [1], so the statement has validity at least when talking about the gatekeepers of what stories get to be told. Marlon James recently posted about his experiences with it [2] and many writers of color have since shared similar experiences. My take is that it's not "us vs them", but a need to illuminate where the barriers lie. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/27/us-study-finds-publishing-is-overwhelmingly-white-and-female http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/27/us-study-finds-... [2] https://www.facebook.com/marlon.james1/posts/10153796709730850 https://www.facebook.com/marlon.james1/posts/101537967097308...
- Absentinsomniac 11y agoOK, but like 63% of the U.S consists of whites. If it were an even distribution it would be disproportionate. Whites are somewhat over represented based on your numbers, but not as much as you seem to imply.
- makomk 11y agoIt sounds small when you put it that way, but try looking at the same stats from the other side: 37% of Americans aren't white, but only 21% of editors aren't. Or to put it another way, white people are twice as likely to become editors as non-white people. That's not a small difference.
- walterstucco 11y ago> 37% of Americans aren't white, but only 21% of editors aren't. how many chinese restaurants are run by non-chinese? these stats don't make any sense, if you just look at them that way. maybe whites like being editors more… if you don't find the reason, you won't find the solution.
- tw04 11y agoAnd men are how much more likely to become firemen? And women are how much more likely to be flight attendants? And men or how less likely to be in marketing? For the life of me I can't understand why people insist on having equal representation in every industry. It'd be on thing if there were numbers proving a massive backlog of people of a certain race/gender wanting positions in a field but unable to get them. It's another entirely when there's no demand, and we insist on artificially generating it to make people feel warm and fuzzy that every job on the planet has equal representation across race/age/gender.
- mjbh7k 11y agoSure, but we're talking about white women, which make up about 33% of the population of the US. Are you arguing that it's ok that 79% of the publishing industry is white and 78% is female?