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Companies in general try to seem like they care about more than money. "Grey Goo Ltd. We care." Diversity rhetoric is an easy, pre-constructed set of Things to
by random32840 6y ago
Companies in general try to seem like they care about more than money. "Grey Goo Ltd. We care." Diversity rhetoric is an easy, pre-constructed set of Things to Say (TM) that you can use to project empathy - notably, without doing anything significant to back it up. Google is still 70% men.
But bear in mind San Francisco is incredibly liberal, SF programmers even more so. Companies based there will make overtures toward diversity & inclusion rhetoric to keep their workforce happy.
- shadowgovt 6y agoI wonder what that 70% looks like relative to other software engineering firms?
- random32840 6y agoAccording to this chart[1], less women than Amazon, Facebook and Apple, more than Microsoft. When you normalise for tech workers only, it climbs to 77% men, which is about average for the industry. [1] https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/4467.jpeg https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/4467.jpeg