Quote:EVER SINCE GOOGLE released its first transparency report in 2014, the company’s efforts to diversify its overwhelmingly male, white, and Asian workforce have been criticized as too little and too late for a company founded in 1998. As the needle failed to move on the share of black and Hispanic engineers, frustration intensified toward an industry that wants to influence the globe, but can’t change itself.

Lately, though, Google’s diversity efforts have come under fire from an unanticipated source: white male former employees alleging discrimination at Google, whose technical workforce is 80 percent male, 53 percent white, and 39 percent Asian, according to the company’s 2017 diversity report.

In January, James Damore, the engineer who was fired after writing a screed against Google’s diversity efforts, filed a lawsuit alleging discrimination against white people, men, and political conservatives. Then Arne Wilberg, a former technical recruiter in Google’s YouTube unit, filed suit1, alleging that YouTube illegally used quotas as recently as last year in an attempt to hire more black, Latinx, and female engineers. Exhibits in the complaint include a screenshot of an internal document where recruiters tracked diversity goals for women and minorities, as well as two emails where a hiring manager instructed the recruiting team to “only consider” candidates from “historically underrepresented groups.” Wilberg's suit was earlier reported by the Wall Street Journal.

(04-30-2019, 05:08 AM)bluebooger Wrote: I don't see the problem

there's often a push to hire minorities or women

Quote:EVER SINCE GOOGLE released its first transparency report in 2014, the company’s efforts to diversify its overwhelmingly male, white, and Asian workforce have been criticized as too little and too late for a company founded in 1998. As the needle failed to move on the share of black and Hispanic engineers, frustration intensified toward an industry that wants to influence the globe, but can’t change itself.

Lately, though, Google’s diversity efforts have come under fire from an unanticipated source: white male former employees alleging discrimination at Google, whose technical workforce is 80 percent male, 53 percent white, and 39 percent Asian, according to the company’s 2017 diversity report.

In January, James Damore, the engineer who was fired after writing a screed against Google’s diversity efforts, filed a lawsuit alleging discrimination against white people, men, and political conservatives. Then Arne Wilberg, a former technical recruiter in Google’s YouTube unit, filed suit1, alleging that YouTube illegally used quotas as recently as last year in an attempt to hire more black, Latinx, and female engineers. Exhibits in the complaint include a screenshot of an internal document where recruiters tracked diversity goals for women and minorities, as well as two emails where a hiring manager instructed the recruiting team to “only consider” candidates from “historically underrepresented groups.” Wilberg's suit was earlier reported by the Wall Street Journal.

https://www.wired.com/story/new-lawsuit-exposes-googles-desperation-to-improve-diversity/

when companies or universities make an effort to favor women and minorities its perfectly acceptable -- even encouraged
https://www.inc.com/emily-canal/google-diversity-report.html

but go the way and face social media backlash

in China you used to be able to get a "white monkey" job -- companies would hire you just because you were white because it gave the company the appearance of being international and successful --- maybe this was the same kind of thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-DJrrMbLC4&feature=youtu.be&t=152

(04-30-2019, 05:08 AM)bluebooger Wrote: I don't see the problem

there's often a push to hire minorities or women

(04-30-2019, 08:27 AM)sanantone Wrote: You never fail to defend racism.

Let's separate college admissions from employment laws because those are two different things. Affirmative Action says that, if you have two top candidates who are equally qualified, then you are supposed to hire the candidate from the underrepresented group. Employers have an obligation to attempt to recruit applicants from groups that are underrepresented in relation to their proportion of the population in the local area.

Affirmative Action is designed to combat discrimination based on protected classes, but it doesn't work well because it's hard for applicants to tell if they've been discriminated against. An experiment from a few years ago proved that African Americans are less likely to get called for interviews. They used fake resumes with Anglo and African American-sounding names.

Quote:According to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission report on diversity in the tech industry, tech firms hire a larger share of White, Asian, and male employees than the private sector overall.

Black and Hispanic or Latinx workers make up 14.4% and 13.9% of the private workforce overall, respectively. In the tech sector as a whole they are 7.4% and 8% of employees.

Quote:Degree data reflect U.S. citizens and permanent residents only; they do not include foreign nationals with temporary visas. Population data include all U.S. residents, regardless of citizenship status.
S&E = science and engineering. S&E includes biological/agricultural sciences, physical sciences, computer sciences, mathematics/statistics, engineering, psychology, and social sciences; excludes health sciences. Physical sciences = chemistry, physics, astronomy, and earth/ocean/atmospheric sciences.

Quote:Hispanics or Latinos earned 13.5% of science and 10% of engineering bachelor’s degrees; black or African American students, 9% and 4%; and American Indians or Alaska Natives, 0.5% and 0.3%.