Posts tagged “diversity”

Google, Yahoo, and Facebook all released diversity reports using identical categories, making comparison easy. The gender gap is worst in engineering (averaging only 16% women). Racial diversity is also poor, though Yahoo's engineering staff is surprisingly majority Asian. Solid data confirming what we already knew.

Arrington says Silicon Valley is a pure meritocracy where gender doesn't matter. He's wrong. Men don't take women in tech seriously by default, and that bias, multiplied across thousands of daily interactions, is exactly why so few women are here. That's on us, not them.

Growing up in Trinidad, I never realized how special its diversity was. Two major races, dozens of religions, yet remarkable harmony. That upbringing made racial and religious equality feel self-evident, not politically correct. I was lucky, even if our tolerance hasn't yet extended to sexuality.