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General Motors has announced a new partnership with education nonprofit Girls Who Code that's intended to encourage more young women to pursue STEM subjects. The auto manufacturer will offer up a $250,000 grant to help fund after-school STEM clubs in schools, universities, and community centers.
"Becoming an engineer paved the way for my career," said GM CEO Mary Barra in a statement posted to the company's website. "It's one of the reasons I am passionate about promoting STEM education to students everywhere. Partnering with Girls Who Code is one more step in GM's commitment to inspiring and growing diverse future leaders."
[...] GM and Girls Who Code are pursuing this collaboration is [sic] response to the decreasing proportion of women in jobs related to computing, even as the field continues to grow. In 1995, 37 percent of the computing workforce was comprised of women, but today that has shrunk to 24 percent.
(Score: 4, Informative) by jmorris on Thursday January 12 2017, @02:48AM
So you assume she got promoted based on her gender and not on her ability.
But is it true? Lets see you, with a straight face, say it couldn't possibly be true. We have at CEO at "Government Motors" who, as the first female CEO, instantly embarks on "diversity" initiatives. If I were picking the most likely Fortune 500 "Affirmative Action Hire CEO" she sounds like a strong candidate.
And that is the problem isn't it? Once everyone knows what affirmative action is, they start suspecting any member of a "protected^Wprivileged group" of being promoted far beyond their competence, especially when they are having media puff pieces written about how "groundbreaking" they are. Rage against the injustice all you want, I know it happens, YOU know it happens and the people who get the unearned positions know it too. Just look at the SCOAMF who will, thankfully, be leaving in nine more days, who as the first Affirmative Action POTUS was promoted far too high, far too fast and fell flat on his face.
Happens all the time in the workplace, especially in fields like hers where the number of candidates who are even qualified to the point where they won't "kill too many" customers" with her incompetence is so low they hire any female engineer they can find, Hell the headhunters fight over them as they all seek to meet quotas so as to keep the Dept of Labor off their asses. She was destined for the boardroom on that basis alone, even before the Federal Government essentially became a majority stakeholder.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mojo chan on Thursday January 12 2017, @01:29PM
But is it true? Lets see you, with a straight face, say it couldn't possibly be true. We have at CEO at "Government Motors" who, as the first female CEO, instantly embarks on "diversity" initiatives. If I were picking the most likely Fortune 500 "Affirmative Action Hire CEO" she sounds like a strong candidate.
That's a textbook example. When a woman does make it, suggest it may be because of her gender. On the other hand, if someone suggests that the male CEOs had an easier time getting to that level because they are male, it can't possibly be true and business is a perfect meritocracy.
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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday January 12 2017, @05:23PM
If a white male is in a position everyone assumes he earned it, since he doesn't have PC privilege. The notable exception that demonstrates the point is when the guy is the son of the last boss, then he is always having to prove he deserves to be there... and often fails. In other words he suffers the same undermining of employee confidence that an Affirmative Action hire does.