Take one. America has attempted to tackle racial disparities by overcompensating for minorities, and leaving little for the so called "privileged", seen in college education systems. A horrible solution. Take two. Manjoo writes, men make 83 percent of Google's engineering employees and 79 percent of its managers. Instead of relaxing the hiring process specifically for women, employers should give them a real chance to enjoy working at the company. For a leading company worldwide, Google contantly experiences sexist comments inside the workplace. Why work somewhere you're already expected to turn in unsatisfactory work, and make sandwiches for everyone?
A women should be judged by skill level, not gender. Scratch that, a person should be judged by skill level, not race or gender. From the article, it is common knowlege that a more diverse team works better and produces higher yielding results. Google, and other global companies have taken that into consideration, and are slowly equalizing the racial ratio. These companies are attempting to push America's attitude to an accepting one, but frankly, it's too slow. We need a dramatic shove in our societies to shock us into the new reality- gender or race won't matter in our technological dawn.
I agree with one of your strongest points, "...people should be judged by skill level, not race or gender." Also, I found it interesting that you typed your post with all your thoughts and changes still there. It portrays your thinking process to be more stronger and your attack on the subject to have clarity. Your post is well thought out and excellently written.
ReplyDeleteHowever, it would have been nice to have you state your ideas of speeding up the change in these companies because as you declared, "it's too slow" of a process. Google offers lectures of diversity to their staff, the question you should ask yourself is if they are working to speed up their plans for change. In my opinion, the lectures are the reason their process is slow; the lectures are rather useless.
I believe that your statement, "people should be judged by skill level, not by race or gender" is debatable. Though this appears to be a completely fair method of selecting job applicants, one should realize that not all people are given equal opportunity in acquiring the same skill level that jobs demand. A candidate that is of a minority that grew up in a poorer neighborhood may not have had access to the better education that a more-privileged candidate who grew up in a high-income neighborhood had access to. A candidate that grew up in poverty may have had to sacrifice his studies and be forced to work to support his family. A girl may have been denied an opportunity by her father in favor of her brother. Is it fair to rule out the candidate of a minority because he or she was limited by financial or social factors that were out of his or her control? The question is highly debatable and makes the topic of racial disparity in our society more complex than it seems.
ReplyDeleteGreat comments above!
ReplyDeleteMyLynn, I love how your voice comes through your writing.
This is nice, I like the informal tone. I feel as if you are actually talking to me. But anyway, I agree with your point that people should be based on skill not gender or race. If the whole world functioned this way, our production levels will rise substantially, we might even discover new technological advances. Oh and I also like how your first paragraph sets up the rest of your response.
ReplyDeletePresenting your opinion naturally and effortlessly made more of an impact on a reader like me rather than a formal response would. I agree with your point that women shouldn't be pitied because of their lack of acceptance of jobs, but rather be put to the test and judged based on skill, like any male would. When you mentioned that America is not being hasty enough with their actions on situations like these, a question was brought into mind; how could they be more useful with their time? What more effective actions would you have in mind for them?
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