Women have been treated differently ever since the beginning. Even today that is the case depsite what some people might say as shown with the majority of Google's workers being male. In a New York Times article, it mentions how Google is upset and uphappy with their gender diversity and lists multiple things that they are doing to attempt to stop this problem like sponsoring programs and studying how they hire people in order to reduce bias but they fail to mention their results of these actions. There is a well known saying that this reminds me of. "You can talk the talk but can you walk the walk?" Google is listing all of these things they say that they are doing but are all of these things actually working? Nobody will know untill Google starts telling the results of these changes they claim they are doing. It is easy for them to say all these things they are doing to make themselves look better, how they aren't just sitting there and doing nothing, but in the end, if none of these things actually accomplish anything, does it really matter?
Google however, isn't the only company to use as evidence towards the mistreatment of women. In that same New York Times article, it says how other companies like Facebook, Apple and Yahoo have similiar results for their gender diveristy. One thing all of these companies have in common is that they are all very popular and well known. Everyone has heard of them but what about lesser known comapanies? If lesser known companies also have a gender diversity problem, we would not be hearing about it. The reason for that is that people would not care about it since the companies aren't as popular. It sounds horrible but it's the truth. When people hear Google, they start flipping out but if they hear some random company they'll toss it aside. This means that there is most likely even more discrimination towards females that we have not heard of. There is already a lot of discrimination but there's actually even more? In the end though, as Lazlo Bock said the New York Times article, everyone is a little racist and sexist. They must be aware of that fact and that it is happening all around us even if it is unintentional before it can stop.
