Posted on 11/06/2015 5:59:25 AM PST by reaganaut1
Jana Rich, an executive recruiter who specializes in consumer technology companies, estimates that 80 percent of the searches she has done over the last 18 months in Silicon Valley, San Francisco and New York have been for candidates lumped under the rubric of "diversity."
"I meant the broadest definition -- if the person is not a straight white male," Ms. Rich said. "A gay, white woman would be considered diverse. A gay, white man also factors into our characteristic of diversity."
But then in the technology industry, the definitions get blurred. "A straight Indian male with an engineering degree from Stanford counts as diversity in most companies," she said. "If it’s a woman, in all companies. But are Chinese people considered diverse? It's such a broad population."
No one seems to disagree that the long-term health of a company depends on having a work force that reflects the marketplace in which companies do business. But solving the challenge of hiring a diverse work force is not as easy as it might seem.
Foremost is the question of how diversity is defined. Is a work force diverse if many ethnicities are represented but everyone is male and under 35? Or if it’s a mix of men and women but a majority hold degrees from Stanford or Harvard? What are companies to do if certain fields, as is often said about engineering, are predominantly male?
If it sounds confusing, it is. Diversity often varies by industry. And although the composition of Silicon Valley's work force has come under scrutiny lately, it is at least trying to change its image.
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No one that Paul Sullivan hangs with, anyway.
The Bottom Line: Silicon Valley and Wall Street are going to be hiring large numbers of blacks and gays to basically sit around and do nothing as the price of keeping the D.C. bureaucrats off their arse.
Diversity = anybody other than a straight white male.
Or they can just pack up their IP and sell it to China.
Just drop the political scam and kill the diversity industry and the grievance industry.
It does sound a lot like racism, bigotry, intolerance and profiling all rolled up into one big fat enchilada, sanctioned by the state and supported by the brain-washed masses...So what’s the difference between that and the kkk, black panthers and la raza??
The diversity police are like Nazis, judging people’s worth by checking their ethnic background back several generations.
Why doesn’t the national legislature repeal all the laws that prevent black people and gay people from inventing things?
They can start by doing away with the laws that prohibit blacks and gays from obtaining patents.
Great post.
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I'd say it depends on the business. If you're designing breakthrough technology, maybe you could use diversity in the marketing department, but you just want the best people out back working as hard as they can. If they happen to be mostly white and Asian males, so be it.
As well as unconstitutional and illegal.
After all - if you cannot legally discriminate on the basis of skin color, sex, or sexual orientation what other excuse or cover story can they come up with for excluding straight, white males?
What about a straight white man who 'gets off' looking at black barked trees while howling at the moon? Does that qualify in the world of 'New York Times Stupid'?
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