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In a stunning example of failure to understand the meaning of the word equality, Github's "social impact team" is now actively discriminating against people based on gender and skin color; white women in particular:
One insider criticized GitHub's "social impact team," which is in charge of figuring out how to use the product to tackle social issues, including diversity within the company itself. It's led by Nicole Sanchez, vice president of social impact, who joined GitHub in May after working as a diversity consultant.
While people inside the company approve of the goal to hire a more diverse workforce, some think the team is contributing to the internal cultural battle.
"They are trying to control culture, interviewing and firing. Scary times at the company without a seasoned leader. While their efforts are admirable it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white' which makes things challenging," this person said.
Sanchez is known for some strong views about diversity. She wrote an article for USA Today shortly before she joined GitHub titled, "More white women does not equal tech diversity."
At one diversity training talk held at a different company and geared toward people of color, she came on a bit stronger with a point that says, "Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women."
From a site policy standpoint, this really makes me want to argue for finding another host for our rehash repository, enormous pain in the ass though that would be.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Monday February 08 2016, @07:48PM
I think the magic words are "working extremely closely with Andreessen Horowitz" - they're calling the shots, and the CEO does whatever they say - that's probably why so many founders and long-term people are leaving.
At least GitHub is not a walled garden. It can go from unicorn poster child to next week's MySpace almost overnight if people dump it. (I am so old I can remember when you hosted your own source code system on your own server.)
But the VC crowd is probably turning GitHub into an "enterprise" service that the same consultants who use MS development tools would buy. They literally don't care who comes, goes, gets mad, or anything. All they want is the $$$.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Monday February 08 2016, @08:09PM
Yeah, that's probably why 99% of the article focuses on management changes.
I'm so surprised that a certain poster would focus on basically one sentence in a 5 page article....
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 08 2016, @09:32PM
You mean the one highly immoral and blatantly illegal behavior indicating quote? Yeah, WTF was I thinking?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday February 08 2016, @09:38PM
No, I mean the alleged behavior for which we have no evidence of other than a single quote from a disgruntled AC. Pretty sure that won't stand up in front of the EEOC...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 08 2016, @09:49PM
You mean reporting isn't the same as a thorough FBI investigation? Say it ain't so!
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday February 08 2016, @10:08PM
Any investigation whatsoever would be an improvement.
Look what I found, it's the GitHub new hires announcements. [github.com]
Awful lot of white dudes in that list....
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 08 2016, @10:44PM
Career choice is a blatantly obvious process of self-selection. If 80% of your applicants are white males, 80% of your work force should statistically be white males if you're doing equality correctly.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday February 10 2016, @03:45AM
It's a reasonable argument, but not sufficient to establish a case. You've got to eliminate the possibility that the skills that you want are not randomly distributed. E.g, very few of the student developers that I've known were white women, so it seems probable that if your advertisement got a lot of white women applying for a post as developer, most would not be qualified, and might say more about where you posted the advertisement and how it was worded than anything else. You can reframe this argument for every other minority group, including white males, and in each case it would inherently imply how you determine what facts need to be established.
1) The proportion of the target audience for the ad that were reasonably skilled for the job.
2) The reasonableness of the description in the ad for the needs of the job.
3) The desirability of the job to the target audience.
etc.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @10:24PM
I think the magic words are "working extremely closely with Andreessen (((Horowitz)))"