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Do we know if Google or tech in general hires black women less than proportional to the US population?

ucaetano 9y ago
Blacks and females are less represented in Google's (and most of tech) workforce, I don't recall seeing specific numbers for black females, but it is trivial to conclude that.
ceejayoz 9y ago
We do, yes. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/06/30/google-diversity-numbers-2016/86562004/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/06/30/google-d... > Women made up 31% of Google employees in 2015, up one percentage point since 2014, according to statistics released by the Internet giant on Thursday. One in five technical hires were women in 2015, raising the number of women in technical roles to 19% from 18% in 2014 and 17% in 2013. In 2015, women held nearly a quarter of leadership posts at Google, up from 22% in 2014 and 21% in 2013. > Google says it's also hiring more black and Hispanic workers: 4% of hires in 2015 were black and 5% were Hispanic. Hispanic employees in technical roles increased to 3% from 2%. But the increased hiring did not budge the overall percentage of underrepresented minorities in the Google workforce as total hiring rose, with Hispanics making up 3% of the work force and African Americans 2%. Given that women are half the population, and African Americans and Hispanics each make up about 12%, we can state categorically that Google's hiring doesn't match the general US population.
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- UncleEntity 9y ago
  > Given that women are half the population, and African Americans and Hispanics each make up about 12%, we can state categorically that Google's hiring doesn't match the general US population. But if you account for demographics within the industry do the numbers remain biased? For example: men account for less than 10% of nurses so if you were to go to a hospital with 50% male nurses they would be way overrepresented. Statistically speaking of course, I'm in no way trying to give the impression we need to do something about the lack of diversity within the nursing profession. --edit-- ...or maybe we need to do something about the lack of diversity in the nursing profession? Don't actually know how this ball rolls?
  - SolaceQuantum 9y ago
    From what I know there is push for more male nurses and some issues with doscriminatory attitudes towards male nurses.
- crispyporkbites 9y ago
  Probably not fair to compare against the entire population, you would need to compare against the working age population. Additionally you might want to take into account local populations for where you're hiring into.
NeonVice 9y ago
The real question is whether or not they hire proportional to the number of black women that are looking for work in a specific role.
- jrs95 9y ago
  Yeah. These comparisons to the general population make no sense in the context of a specific company. It makes much more sense to measure against the proportions of that part of the work force if what you're really trying to combat is workplace discrimination. But that's not what this is really about, it's about racial justice. It's about redistributing wealth and power from whites to everyone else in an attempt to create more equality across the board, not about "fair" hiring practices.
- SolaceQuantum 9y ago
  Ah that may be the case, yes.

Blacks and females are less represented in Google's (and most of tech) workforce, I don't recall seeing specific numbers for black females, but it is trivial to conclude that.

ceejayoz 9y ago

We do, yes. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/06/30/google-diversity-numbers-2016/86562004/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/06/30/google-d... > Women made up 31% of Google employees in 2015, up one percentage point since 2014, according to statistics released by the Internet giant on Thursday. One in five technical hires were women in 2015, raising the number of women in technical roles to 19% from 18% in 2014 and 17% in 2013. In 2015, women held nearly a quarter of leadership posts at Google, up from 22% in 2014 and 21% in 2013. > Google says it's also hiring more black and Hispanic workers: 4% of hires in 2015 were black and 5% were Hispanic. Hispanic employees in technical roles increased to 3% from 2%. But the increased hiring did not budge the overall percentage of underrepresented minorities in the Google workforce as total hiring rose, with Hispanics making up 3% of the work force and African Americans 2%. Given that women are half the population, and African Americans and Hispanics each make up about 12%, we can state categorically that Google's hiring doesn't match the general US population.

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UncleEntity 9y ago
> Given that women are half the population, and African Americans and Hispanics each make up about 12%, we can state categorically that Google's hiring doesn't match the general US population. But if you account for demographics within the industry do the numbers remain biased? For example: men account for less than 10% of nurses so if you were to go to a hospital with 50% male nurses they would be way overrepresented. Statistically speaking of course, I'm in no way trying to give the impression we need to do something about the lack of diversity within the nursing profession. --edit-- ...or maybe we need to do something about the lack of diversity in the nursing profession? Don't actually know how this ball rolls?
- SolaceQuantum 9y ago
  From what I know there is push for more male nurses and some issues with doscriminatory attitudes towards male nurses.
crispyporkbites 9y ago
Probably not fair to compare against the entire population, you would need to compare against the working age population. Additionally you might want to take into account local populations for where you're hiring into.

NeonVice 9y ago

The real question is whether or not they hire proportional to the number of black women that are looking for work in a specific role.

jrs95 9y ago
Yeah. These comparisons to the general population make no sense in the context of a specific company. It makes much more sense to measure against the proportions of that part of the work force if what you're really trying to combat is workplace discrimination. But that's not what this is really about, it's about racial justice. It's about redistributing wealth and power from whites to everyone else in an attempt to create more equality across the board, not about "fair" hiring practices.
SolaceQuantum 9y ago
Ah that may be the case, yes.