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According to the Wall Street Journal, Intel is doubling referral bonuses for women, minorities and veterans. Employees can receive $4,000 bonuses for suggesting candidates that meet the company's diversity goals. Intel had previously pledged $300 million over the next five years to address "Silicon Valley's disappointing diversity numbers," and has set a goal of "full representation" of women and under-represented minorities by 2020:
The new programs at Intel and across the tech sector come as companies report little-changed diversity numbers. Intel's diversity statistics for 2014 showed 24 percent of Intel employees are female. The company is also predominantly white and Asian, with only 3.5% black and 8% Latino employees. The company did not include statistics about veterans in its report.
Christine Dotts, a spokeswoman for Intel, said in an email that higher recruiting bonuses have been used by the company in the last decade, but she declined to comment on when or how much the bonuses were for.
Also at The Register.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @04:29PM
Can people who are not white males bring valuable perspective to a technical or business question?
The evidence is disproportionate numbers of asian males try to at least ;).
If you look at lots of high profile tech places in the USA, asians are overrepresented if you consider their percentage in the general population.
FWIW I'm an Asian male living in Asia, and I find lots of these stories amusing and silly in various ways.
Why keep trying to encourage women in the USA to go for jobs that can and are being outsourced to cheaper places in Asia? It makes sense to encourage women in Vietnam, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China, etc to go into such jobs (where they'd be the receiving end of outsourcing). But why spend so much time and resources to encourage women in the USA if they're not that interested? The barriers to enter tech in the USA are already low- want to code? Start your own project. If you're not that interested you're far more likely to be mediocre, and if employers were going for mediocre, they might as well go for cheaper mediocre elsewhere than expensive mediocre in the USA.
In contrast the many women do seem to go for jobs that are not as commonly outsourced to other countries - secretaries, nurses, auditors/bookkeeping, waitresses, receptionists, maids, hairdressers/hairstylists/cosmetologists: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0873003.html [infoplease.com] (see those that are > 80% women).