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You shouldn't be comparing the percentage of Asians in leadership positions to the overall percentage of Asians in the country, but to the demographics of the c
by jacalata 12y ago
You shouldn't be comparing the percentage of Asians in leadership positions to the overall percentage of Asians in the country, but to the demographics of the companies as a whole. By that comparison, Asians aren't overrepresented in Google's leadership team - checking out their own diversity stats, 30% of the company is Asian but only 23% of their leadership team. (http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=leadership http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=leadershi...)
This article contains numbers for a lot of companies: http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/In-tech-even-Asians-are-left-out-at-the-top-5709457.php http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/In-tech-even-Asians...
- morgante 12y ago> You shouldn't be comparing the percentage of Asians in leadership positions to the overall percentage of Asians in the country, but to the demographics of the companies as a whole. Why? It's only in the context of the rest of the country that complaints about the underrepresentation of other minorities makes sense.
- jacalata 12y agoNot really. Imagine a company where 99% of hires had graduated from Stanford and 1% from Harvard, but only 1% of people promoted to management were Stanford grads. You wouldn't say "well, the percentage of Stanford graduates in the country is statistically insignificant so it makes sense for there to be very few Stanford grads in management".
- morgante 12y agoThis assumes that the standard path into leadership positions is via promotion from the tech department. I think that's a pretty dubious assumption.