It was posted by Gawker about 7 months ago
Gawker has this bizarre notion that every industry, every company, every neighborhood of every town in every state should PRECISELY MATCH the overall demographic of the entire country. If there are xx% black women in the US, then dammit every fucking company damn well better have a matching percentage on staff.
Wow. That’s actually worse than the overall journalism industry diversity numbers, and diversity in journalism is FAR FAR worse than in tech. Gawker has no credibility whatsoever on this stuff. They do hypocrisy like Shakespeare does literature.
The “cesspools of homogeneity” are desperately hungry for women applicants. A friend of mine owns a small-ish startup and has made active inclusiveness a goal of the company from the outset. He says unemployed, competent female engineers are basically unicorns. When he does occasionally find one, he always ends up…
Wow.
This talk of homogeneity is Silicon Valley is bullshit, because people insist in talking in euphemisms and code.
I heard that there may be a few Asians in the tech industry. Oh yeah, they aren’t considered minorities because they aren’t black or Latino, right?
Lets get one of these for gawker media, a well known bastion of diversity. I went ahead and grabbed a quick graph from an earlier story for ya.