For 50 Years, Tech Companies Have Tried to Increase Diversity by Fixing People Instead of the System

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 06:26:59 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://slate.com/technology/2021/03/google-acm-digital-skills-training-diversity-history.html>

"In short, just because Black men and women receive digital skills
training—whether in the 1960s or the 2020s—it provides no guarantee of
employment, compensation, health insurance, job stability, job mobility, and
overall power in the labor market. Perhaps some of the women trained by Google
will get jobs. Some of their lives may improve. But it’s not a meaningful
challenge to centuries of institutionalized segregation, separation, and
subordination."

Via Esther Schindler.

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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