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A strong equity lens?
WestlinnDuck
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I love the post modern approach to language. Just make up words that seem to convey some sort of solution that ignores the real problem. So, 588 new black software engineers a year but a strong equity lens will solve the problem.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-diversity-black-americans-computer-science-155931826.html
While recent conversations around racial equality in the U.S. have been somewhat of a wake-up call for employers to look inward, tech giants face even more scrutiny for lagging behind others on diversity and inclusion even as they wield more power.
Only 1.7% of Facebook’s (FB) technical roles are held by Black employees, according to its own diversity report. At Google (GOOG, GOOGL), which employs some 119,000 workers, a mere 3.7% are Black. Apple (AAPL) hasn’t published a fresh report since 2018, when it disclosed that 6% of its tech jobs went to Black professionals.
So what’s Silicon Valley getting wrong on diversity? “What the tech industry and many large employers have gotten wrong is focusing too much on quarter-to-quarter hiring numbers,” says Michael Ellison, co-founder and CEO of CodePath, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that provides free support, mentorship, and career coaching for computer science college students throughout the U.S.
Instead, Ellison says tech companies need to focus on long-term systemic change that educates a more diverse group of students to enter the tech industry.
“When you look at trying to fill the talent pipeline this quarter, this year, you're ignoring the fact that there are only 7,360 Black computer science graduates in all of 2019 and only 8% of them ended up becoming software engineers. So this means only 588 career-ready Black software developers each year graduating in an industry with 1.4 million software developers,” he explained an interview with Yahoo Finance’s On the Move on Wednesday. “You can't fill a diversity gap with numbers so small.”
‘A strong equity lens’
While Silicon Valley titans have made significant financial commitments and pledges to diversity, there’s something fundamentally broken about the system at large, according to Ellison, whose nonprofit works with 4,500 students, 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or women.
The Silicon Valley operating system is flawed in two key ways — having too much of a myopic approach, in part by recruiting largely from elite schools, and not valuing true equity, according to Ellison. The idea of eliminating inequity is to take into account the circumstances that may have helped or hurt a candidate and try to level the playing field, he explained.
“When you talk about diversity but you don’t have a lens of ‘Am I working with first-generation college students?’ ‘Am I looking at low-income populations?’ Guess what? You end up going to the same places you always go to — elite schools, you look at students with lots [on their] resumes,” said Ellison.
And if students from more diverse backgrounds do make their way through the door, tech companies often have a hard time retaining them, Ellison explained.
“The students who are the first in are the ones who have the connections. The students who are the last ones in and the first ones out in a pandemic like this are the ones from lower income backgrounds,” he said. “So we need to have that strong equity lens and shift our thinking to go beyond numbers and focus more on long-term sustainable community change with employers.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-diversity-black-americans-computer-science-155931826.html
While recent conversations around racial equality in the U.S. have been somewhat of a wake-up call for employers to look inward, tech giants face even more scrutiny for lagging behind others on diversity and inclusion even as they wield more power.
Only 1.7% of Facebook’s (FB) technical roles are held by Black employees, according to its own diversity report. At Google (GOOG, GOOGL), which employs some 119,000 workers, a mere 3.7% are Black. Apple (AAPL) hasn’t published a fresh report since 2018, when it disclosed that 6% of its tech jobs went to Black professionals.
So what’s Silicon Valley getting wrong on diversity? “What the tech industry and many large employers have gotten wrong is focusing too much on quarter-to-quarter hiring numbers,” says Michael Ellison, co-founder and CEO of CodePath, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that provides free support, mentorship, and career coaching for computer science college students throughout the U.S.
Instead, Ellison says tech companies need to focus on long-term systemic change that educates a more diverse group of students to enter the tech industry.
“When you look at trying to fill the talent pipeline this quarter, this year, you're ignoring the fact that there are only 7,360 Black computer science graduates in all of 2019 and only 8% of them ended up becoming software engineers. So this means only 588 career-ready Black software developers each year graduating in an industry with 1.4 million software developers,” he explained an interview with Yahoo Finance’s On the Move on Wednesday. “You can't fill a diversity gap with numbers so small.”
‘A strong equity lens’
While Silicon Valley titans have made significant financial commitments and pledges to diversity, there’s something fundamentally broken about the system at large, according to Ellison, whose nonprofit works with 4,500 students, 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or women.
The Silicon Valley operating system is flawed in two key ways — having too much of a myopic approach, in part by recruiting largely from elite schools, and not valuing true equity, according to Ellison. The idea of eliminating inequity is to take into account the circumstances that may have helped or hurt a candidate and try to level the playing field, he explained.
“When you talk about diversity but you don’t have a lens of ‘Am I working with first-generation college students?’ ‘Am I looking at low-income populations?’ Guess what? You end up going to the same places you always go to — elite schools, you look at students with lots [on their] resumes,” said Ellison.
And if students from more diverse backgrounds do make their way through the door, tech companies often have a hard time retaining them, Ellison explained.
“The students who are the first in are the ones who have the connections. The students who are the last ones in and the first ones out in a pandemic like this are the ones from lower income backgrounds,” he said. “So we need to have that strong equity lens and shift our thinking to go beyond numbers and focus more on long-term sustainable community change with employers.”
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God forbid, a company look the elite schools to get elite talent into their work force.
Weird how this doesn't apply to any area of the economy where blacks dominate like sports.
In response to when blacks were portrayed as mostly pimps and hookers back in the 70s TV has now gone in the other direction and blacks are regularly portrayed in position of influence and authority far beyond the reality.
If it was damaging to the self image of Black children to be marginalized in pop culture and studies say it was, then aren't we raising a generation of self loathing white kids? Wait, I think we actually are
Who didn’t want to be Willis, Dudley, and Arnold in the early 80s?
Agree that the players pick the coach.
Another senseless murder
No love for Tootie?!?