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.
I agree with your first paragraph in your post. I believe that Google hasn`t fully responded to their problem relating to gender and racial inequalities since they haven`t given out concrete evidence.
ReplyDeleteIn your second paragraph, I liked how you stated the fact that not only are well known companies having issues toward this topic, but also many other lesser known ones. However, I don`t believe that these less known companies aren`t getting attention due to people not caring. I think its more due to the fact that there audience is directed to a smaller percentage of the population. Google and other global companies get more attention because it affects a larger percentage of employees and people around the world
I have to disagree with you. I do not necessarily believe Google workshops are completely worthless and do not accomplish anything for certain people. In the article there is an anecdote that shows the change. However, people have different opinions and whether or not they deeply care about hidden biases enough to intervene when it’s actually occurring become the results of the workshop.
ReplyDeleteI do like how you incorporated various major corporations, proving that Google is not the only male dominated company.
I will have to disagree with a portion of your first paragraph. I can understand that there have not been any actual statistics of this new program presented by Google. However, when the results do come out, it will matter both ways. If the results are good, Google gets a better image. If it turns out to be negative, people will notice this, and the fight for equality will get another reason to push on. More tension will be put on people because the workers being accepted still have a voice. Someone has to notice if Google isn't doing anything.
ReplyDeleteI can see your idea in your second paragraph, but I think an example of a small company going through that would have helped it more.