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Democrats chide Google, Facebook for ‘troubling’ lack of diversity
thehill.com ^ | July 8, 2014 | Julian Hattem

Posted on 07/08/2014 6:20:07 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Major tech companies like Facebook, Yahoo and Google aren’t doing enough to add more women and minority workers to their rolls, three Northern California Democrats charged on Tuesday.

“It is painfully clear the sector faces a persistent and troubling deficit when it comes to women, African-Americans and Latinos,” Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) claimed in an op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News.

“Diversifying the tech workforce will not only boost the bottom line, but also provide African-American, Latino and female students with success stories in a field largely devoid of role models,” they wrote. Some major Silicon Valley firms have begun disclosing statistics on diversity at their offices. By and large, the workplaces are overwhelmingly male, white and Asian.

Google, for instance, is 70 percent male, 61 percent white and 30 percent Asian. African-American workers, meanwhile, make up just 2 percent of the Web giant.

The three Democratic lawmakers praised the companies for disclosing their diversity stats but said that was only the first step.

“We'd like to commend these companies and others that have provided this data,” they wrote. “Are we satisfied with the picture it presents? Hardly.

“But as female members of a legislative body starkly unrepresentative of our nation, we know the first step in solving any challenge is recognizing there is one.”

The focus should now be on diversity at the firms’ highest tiers and recruitment techniques should better target women and minority workers, they said.

Congress needs to do its part, too, they added.

Not enough American students are taking advantage of math and engineering classes, and that’s especially true for Latino, African-American and female students. In 12 states, for instance, not a single African-American student took the Advanced Placement test for computer science.

Lawmakers in Washington can put a focus on that disparity and ensure that all students get equal access to opportunities that lead to top Silicon Valley jobs, the lawmakers offered.


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1 posted on 07/08/2014 6:20:07 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The new bumper stickers will read “Legislate Diversity!”


2 posted on 07/08/2014 6:23:05 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Please Support Free Republic.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Diversifying the tech workforce will not only boost the bottom line.

Prove it.
(If that were true, it would have already happened).


3 posted on 07/08/2014 6:23:16 PM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

You hire the best otherwise you are out of business.


4 posted on 07/08/2014 6:23:53 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: calljack

“...Diversifying the tech workforce will not only boost the bottom line....”
It will take it to beyond the red line and then on into bankruptcy.

There, fixed it.


5 posted on 07/08/2014 6:25:56 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: doc1019

Success is the best and only true role model.

These candy floss-brained lefties think a role model is like a runway model...simply there to act as a clothes horse.


6 posted on 07/08/2014 6:26:19 PM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Now I am troubled, too. (see tagline)


7 posted on 07/08/2014 6:28:00 PM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

They really represent a troubling lack of diverse thought. Facebook or Goggle would be tyrants given half the chance.


8 posted on 07/08/2014 6:30:10 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII)

This law makes it illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex

Sounds like the Dems want to break the law. In fact, ANY effort to promote diversity violates this act.

9 posted on 07/08/2014 6:30:37 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Oh, this is code for the DNC wants more money.


10 posted on 07/08/2014 6:30:47 PM PDT by RginTN
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Diversifying the tech workforce will not only boost the bottom line...

Lie! Only if the workforce can write code, document code (As I, a lowly WASP tech writer made my living doing) or manage the code, can you make a profit.

11 posted on 07/08/2014 6:31:36 PM PDT by Ace's Dad (Proud grandpa of a newly born "Brit Chick" named Poppy Loucks!)
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To: Nuc 1.1

They already are.


12 posted on 07/08/2014 6:32:52 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Tip #1: Figure out how much time you spend socializing on your computer or phone. Spend at least a quarter of that time learning to program with the free tools available on the internet.


13 posted on 07/08/2014 6:33:28 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: Right Brother

I still see way to many companies post positions with “we are a affirmative Action/equal opportunity employer.” No, you can only be one of those, not both.


14 posted on 07/08/2014 6:36:21 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Tailgunner Joe

True, the Democrats are diverse; they have morons and idiots and self centered egotistical elitists for leaders.


15 posted on 07/08/2014 6:40:02 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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Diversity?

Try to find a conservative in either company. Zuckerturd and Shhhmit are both flaming libs.


16 posted on 07/08/2014 6:41:23 PM PDT by Lets Roll NOW (A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
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To: matt04

Exactly. Cognitive dissonance. It is at the core of liberalism.


17 posted on 07/08/2014 6:46:44 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: RginTN
Yup; hire some diversity consultants and throw the DNC some money and they will go away for a while.
BTW - I guess Asians and Indians don't count with the diversity crowd.
18 posted on 07/08/2014 6:49:48 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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The focus should now be on diversity at the firms’ highest tiers and recruitment techniques should better target women and minority workers, they said.

Will the women and minority workers also need to know how to actually do the jobs, or are they merely to occupy office space and serve as EEOC window dressing, I wonder.

Because there's only one reason to pay somebody to do a job, and that's to make certain the job gets done in an economical and efficient manner. A concept legislators are no doubt intimately familiar with...
19 posted on 07/08/2014 6:54:55 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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Not a whole lot of diverthity in this photo. Maybe that's why they actually accomplished something.


20 posted on 07/08/2014 6:57:31 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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