What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft

Post by QuarterReptile » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 11:06 PM UTC

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Of course, this has been known for very long. Moynihan was getting in trouble for saying it back in the 60s. It's also the reason why the Civil Rights Act includes women; a particularly angry racist congressman from Virginia added women to the bill (which was widely understood to be aimed at strengthening black fathers to keep families together) to get the whole thing killed (though some publications have argued that…

>a particularly angry racist congressman from Virginia added women to the bill Where do I read more about this?

The congressman you're looking for is Howard W. Smith. I'll let you pick a preferred source.

Post by itsdrewmiller » Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 3:27 AM UTC

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In the US the EEOC has a standard set of questions to ask applicants: https://attorneyatlawmagazine.com/what-are-eeo-questions-why... Hiring managers shouldn't see individual results for these - they should be used for aggregate reporting to ensure the overall process is unbiased.

OK, but all I see is how companies hiring managers are looking to hire females and minorities - anyone but white men, basically. I read this everywhere, it is ubiquitous how companies seek out women and POC. Recently, a law was passed in California that corporate board of directors are required to be 50% women. I'm not sure why it was only women, and not equal representative amounts of hispanic, black, asian, middle…

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...

Companies can't legally prefer hiring applicants based on protected characteristics, including sex or race. They are allowed to do sourcing work to increase the diversity of their pipeline, but not to go so far as to effectively exclude people based on protected characteristics. I am not a lawyer.

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