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> Another anecdote is that anytime I was able to get someone from my alma mater a job. I did. I got two Black women (really underrepresented in tech) that gradu
by ikeyany 8y ago
> Another anecdote is that anytime I was able to get someone from my alma mater a job. I did. I got two Black women (really underrepresented in tech) that graduated from the same college a year after I did a job at the same place. That was thier stepping stone. That goes on everywhere you recommend people you know.
Do you suppose that for cases like boardrooms, this exacerbates the pipeline problem? It would imply that more dire actions are needed.
- scarface74 8y agoOf course it does. I didn't recommend them because they were Black. I recommended them because I knew them. It was statistically 99.9% chance that anyone who went to my HBCU would be Black. The same would happen in the opposite direction.
- ikeyany 8y agoI didn't mean to imply that you were. What I'm getting at is that although things like overt racism aren't often reasons to why the pipeline problem exists, bias is still an underlying factor. Actions like mandating a woman/minority in the boardroom may not be the right solution, but it may come from legitimate reasons.