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If diversity is the goal: there are going to be fewer white men because they don't count as diverse. It's tautological. Anything else is speaking out of both

• xg15 3y ago
  > because they don't count as diverse Well yes. If your fruit salad consists of 80% apples and 20% pears, you're not going to get a better mix by adding even more apples. That's basic math, even if the apples might not like it. That being said, I keep reading about growing pies and not-zero-sum games, so you could apply the same logic here as well: if the percentage of women (vs men) or blacks (vs whites) etc should be increased, that doesn't necessarily mean that the absolute counts of men has to be reduced or that from this day on, no more men have to be employed for new jobs. It just means that employment numbers of women have to grow faster than those of men. Also, if there are root causes that can be addressed, such as different training biographies, it could be possible to archive that change without mandating any kind of specific employment policies.
  • houseatrielah 3y ago
    Its weird though, because there's no combination where some HR manager is going to say, hmm, lets get a white guy in there. 100% (non-white) same-ethnicity is very diverse according to HR metrics, but its the opposite of the meaning of the word.