After reading the article, "Exposing Hidden Bias at Google," I have come to agree that "Google, like many other tech companies, is a man's world." Altough women are just as competent to take on the jobs of the tech world, why is it that seventy percent of the workforce for Google male? This doesn't stop at Google too, however, other well known tech companies such as Apple and Facebook have the majority of the work force lean towards the male populace. Why is that?
Being male or female should be irrelevant because both genders have the same mental capabilities. No matter what way we look at it, we're all humans, and we're all the same species, and we're all built up the same way intelectually. It has yet to be proven that being of different genders can cause dissabilites when it comes to the fields of work. This is why I am concerned as to why tech companies prefer men over women.
Altough it's true that being biased has a factor as to why male are prefered over women, we can't just judge our all our assumptions that Google and other tech companies are completely biased against females. In the article, we never did get a statistic on how many female applied to work at said tech companies compared to the amount of males. Maybe females don't prefer working at tech jobs and enjoy nursing or teach thus have a lower apply rate, causing less female workers at tech companies. Maybe even males don't really have any other jobs to go to, so they all try to apply for tech companies. This reason can lead to as to why males have a population edge over woman in this type of job.
All in all, I would have to say that for now in our current age, tech companies are a man's world. Employers will always have a little bias in their eyes when looking at resumes. There will always be a bigger workforce of men compared to woman in these types of companies. And as long as women are all right with that, it will probably stay that way for a long time.
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ReplyDeleteLike Elmer said, I also enjoyed your response to the article "Exposing Hidden Bias at Google." I agree with your view on the article. Although there are spelling and grammar errors, it was still an intriguing read.
ReplyDeleteI agree and disagree on your thoughts. You contradict yourself so it is slightly hard to tell where you stand, but I know for a fact that the reason why the tech industry is a male dominated work force is because there are almost no women going into the field. When there are no women going into the field, tech companies have no choice but to hire male dominated work forces. All in all though, your post was interesting and brought up the curious fact that the article didn't mention the application rates of women, a fact that I overlooked.
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ReplyDeleteI like the point that you made on the application rates. Of course one can never assume, but the stereotype stands that women aren't as interested in computers or video games. Though I do have a question, do you think that the application rates impact how the companies accept or decline people? Of course that could be seen as a gender neutral topic, though I am specifying more to females. Do you think that if there were less female applicants they would treat it the same as male workers?
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