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What is the purpose of having a company's demographics represent the country? The value to society, if done well, is ensuring everybody has a roughly equal cha

What is the purpose of having a company's demographics represent the country? The value to society, if done well, is ensuring everybody has a roughly equal chance to succeed across careers/jobs/industries. The company itself possibly gets value from ensuring new candidates see others like them working there. They might get value from being able to show broader society that they are being fair. Regardless, it's up to the BoD, shareholders, and C-suite to decide what value is created and act accordingly. Apparently some tech companies see value in building a diverse workforce. What if certain ethnic groups focus more on sports, or biology, or being lawyers or doctors, or they skip the whole college ripoff and go to a trade school. Do they still need equal representation in tech? The burden is on people who want to maintain the current, non-representative state to prove nobody from other demographics wants into the field. Failing that, we should be trying to discover why some groups are underrepresented. And I just don't buy the argument that blacks prefer to play basketball and women prefer to teach, or whatever else it is your implying.

snovv_crash 5y ago
> Apparently some tech companies see value in building a diverse workforce. And that's great, but diversity extends beyond ethnicity. If the only people your company hires are Ivy League 3rd culture kids, it doesn't matter what race they are. You are missing out on the majority of the benefits of diversity. > The burden is on people who want to maintain the current, non-representative state to prove nobody from other demographics wants into the field. No it isn't, and the fact that you're asking people to prove a negative should be a giant red flag that your views are unreasonable. > And I just don't buy the argument that blacks prefer to play basketball and women prefer to teach, or whatever else it is your implying. Please don't put words in my mouth, the fact that these examples are what you thought of speaks volumes about the depth of understanding you have here. White people actually focus a lot on sports compared to Asian, for example. East Asians focus more on being doctors than Indians, relative to engineering, as another. Moreover, that you are saying that all people from all backgrounds should find tech equally attractive tells me that you've fundamentally misunderstood the concept of cultural diversity. The fact that we have imbalances shows that we value diversity, because we let individuals choose as they wish, and as their cultures guide them. Having equal representation actually means a homogeneous society, not a diverse society.

snovv_crash 5y ago

> Apparently some tech companies see value in building a diverse workforce. And that's great, but diversity extends beyond ethnicity. If the only people your company hires are Ivy League 3rd culture kids, it doesn't matter what race they are. You are missing out on the majority of the benefits of diversity. > The burden is on people who want to maintain the current, non-representative state to prove nobody from other demographics wants into the field. No it isn't, and the fact that you're asking people to prove a negative should be a giant red flag that your views are unreasonable. > And I just don't buy the argument that blacks prefer to play basketball and women prefer to teach, or whatever else it is your implying. Please don't put words in my mouth, the fact that these examples are what you thought of speaks volumes about the depth of understanding you have here. White people actually focus a lot on sports compared to Asian, for example. East Asians focus more on being doctors than Indians, relative to engineering, as another. Moreover, that you are saying that all people from all backgrounds should find tech equally attractive tells me that you've fundamentally misunderstood the concept of cultural diversity. The fact that we have imbalances shows that we value diversity, because we let individuals choose as they wish, and as their cultures guide them. Having equal representation actually means a homogeneous society, not a diverse society.