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Is it bad on Google's part if the percentage of men/women in tech roles represents the distribution of men and women in the field as a whole? I think that numbe

Is it bad on Google's part if the percentage of men/women in tech roles represents the distribution of men and women in the field as a whole? I think that numbers which are representative of the current population can hardly be considered "bad." To reiterate, I am only commenting on men and women in tech roles at Google, not the rest of the survey. The takeaway here shouldn't be "Google needs to hire more women" it should be "we need to get more women involved in the tech industry."

AnthonyMouse 12y ago
> The takeaway here shouldn't be "Google needs to hire more women" it should be "we need to get more women involved in the tech industry." Exactly. Extolling tech companies to hire more women without creating a larger pool of qualified female applicants is an exercise in futility. You can't change the outputs without changing the inputs; one company hiring more women without changing the overall supply would only result in even worse ratios at other companies. And the numbers are so terrible that if you had one company that managed to hire 50% women, that would mean you would have to have two other companies of equal size with only 2% women. As bad as each company having only 18% sounds, having 2/3rds of companies with only 2% doesn't seem better.