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Federal labor officials have decided to reverse their longtime policy and release diversity numbers for government contractors such as Oracle and Palantir Technologies in response to a lawsuit filed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.
Reveal submitted Freedom of Information Act requests for the workplace statistics of those and other tech companies as part of a project analyzing the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. We requested the companies’ official EEO-1 reports, which show the race and gender numbers for total US employees grouped by broad job categories.
But five companies – Oracle, Palantir, Pandora Media, Gilead Sciences and Splunk – objected to the requests, claiming that the diversity data is a trade secret. In each case, the US Department of Labor initially agreed with the companies and denied Reveal’s FOIA requests.
[...] On Oct. 30, the Labor Department notified the five government contractors that it would disclose their diversity numbers over their objections. Citing the lawsuit, the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs told the companies that it has “undertaken a supplemental review” and “will initiate disclosure.” The companies had until Nov. 19 to take legal action to stop the release of the data.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @02:28PM (3 children)
Careful there. Add in a focus on ensuring that girls (and boys, because this will help them as well) receive a proper maths education. Throw out teachers--especially womyn-born-womyn teachers who believe a womyn's place is in the kitchen (they will tie feminist philosophy into a pretzel to arrive at that conclusion based on "wombs" or someshit... we both know they're out there, aligned with right-wing Christian conservatives but I suppose we might see some Muslim diversity in this kind of counterrevolutionary "feminism" they practice)--who transmit math phobia to their students.
If we do that, we might just see cisfemale programmers and African-American programmers and Latinx programmers.
So the ruling class must be careful, since the goal of these policies, due to their objective inability to achieve their goals, is clearly to keep womyn in the kitchen and African-Americans and Latinx impoverished.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 27 2018, @03:06PM (2 children)
Fucking log in, Kurenai, we all know it's you. No one else makes every goddamn post ever on the subject of everything her personal stalking horse for blaming every single cisgender woman in the world for what a bunch of shitty TERFs did to her at the Michigan Womyn's Festival. Some women are assholes; huge revelation, no?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @07:58PM (1 child)
So you "real" women have no intention of learning programming. That's wonderful.
You scream about abortion. Then you go and vote Trump. (Or for whoever in Georgia's gubernatorial race.) Then the right to an abortion is suddenly in danger. So you scream louder about abortion. Then you'll go again and vote to make abortion illegal.
One begins to wonder whether your actions (voting to make abortion illegal, refusing to learn programming, etc) might not be more important than your words. I think that you women by and large want abortion illegal and you want to discourage your daughters from becoming interested in programming.
It was fun the first time around the misogynerd narrative. I guess live and learn. Turns out that you women are just gaslighting about all this.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 27 2018, @10:36PM
Sorry, what? I have never voted for a Republican in my life, and actually *can* program in C a bit.
Also, if you say "you women" but are a transwoman, are you saying transwomen aren't women? Because so are the people who did you wrong at the MWMF...and the other people who want you dead.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...