Response to: "Community Post #1: Exposing Hidden Biases at Google to Improve Diversity"

Technology is usually associated with males. Stating that tech industries are a "man's world" reveals that Google is probably big on the biasness of genders (The New York Times). Despite the great emergence of women over the years, many companies still feel that men should be the dominant majority, so there is a lack of diversity and an unfair amount of power given to males. 

 

After years of sex discrimination, women have been looked down-upon because of the advantages men claim to have other them. However, as seen in a variety of scenarios, women are always able to be just as, sometimes even more, successful than men. This proves that for there to still be unequal treatment amongst genders, people need to work on giving women more opportunities to become involved in forces that men are currently ruling in. Also, there should be proof of females pulling out just as strongly as males in business and other aspects of life. 

The unequal roles of work at Google are more prominent than you would think (The New York Times). This may or may not be intentional, but the work opportunities need to be equalized. There are many possible reasons as to why there is inequality between genders - ranging from more male applicants because of personal interest, to the unwelcoming feel against women.  

Google may have started off with the ruling of men, but that doesn’t mean it’ll have to stay that way in the future. Since the company is so big, people believe women aren’t competitive enough for the work because of stereotypes. Females are most often seen as humans who aren’t willing to stand up for a cause, or to work hard for something. So who is seen as the opposite? Humans who work hard to put a foot down on a situation? Men. Since the roots of business, males have been the ones who start up a company, and as time went on, they were the ones who were seen to keep it going. There were no women in the formula back then.  

But things are different now. Fortunately, Google has come up with programs to help encourage women into the work force. Unfortunately, no one is able to say that it has made a significant change, but there is slow progress of the balancing of genders in the environment. In addition to the programs, more people who are becoming aware of the idea of “unconscious bias” have made efforts to help more employees understand the situation as well (The New York Times).  

The fact that workers are trying to become aware of their biasness can help industries improve on their years-worth of unequal distribution of opportunities. The workers of Google have gone from "oblivious" to "fully aware" of their lack of variety of people. This proves that their programs and the introduction of "unconscious bias" have awakened people from the past eras of dominating men, to the present and future reality of the power of women.