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Google reports soaring attrition among Black women

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Re: Google reports soaring attrition among Black women

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> The company nearly doubled the number of Black+ people in U.S. leadership to 7.1% last year

It’s cool they’ve been able to find qualified people, taking a long time to fill those roles but very nice they are doing it!

They will more adequately address additional markets with this talent gravitational pull.

What is the percentage of Black+ in the population? The US census doesn’t have a + section, so we can deduce that it is at least 12% for standard tier Black, but when including the premium tier what percentage is that?

It’s nice that it is getting much closer to proportionate representation, it’s not clear how close

Re: Google reports soaring attrition among Black women

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What is Black+ and Latinx+? This is the first time I'm hearing this term and can't find anything about it in the report or online.

I want to know also. My guess is Black or Latino of every gender/sexuality.

If I had to guess, I would say Black+ means anyone who has Black heritage, even if mixed. But it could be a sexual orientation thing too.

Re: Google reports soaring attrition among Black women

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What is Black+ and Latinx+? This is the first time I'm hearing this term and can't find anything about it in the report or online.

I think it's for being Black + Gay or whatever other minority.

Latino is for males, Latina is for females so Latinx is for both and other genders and I guess the + indicates belonging to another minority group.

As a non-American this all seems silly but I see the point of it.

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