In the Article "Exposing Hidden Bias at Google" written by Farhad Manjoo, Manjoo talks about how Google is trying to hire people of different genders and ethnicities to increase the diversity between its ranks. According to the article, "Men make up 83 percent of Google's Engineering employees", leaving only 17 percent of Google's Engineering employees to be women. For such a large and well known company in the modern world to have such unbalanced gender ratios is not acceptable. In today's society, gender should not play a role in job selection, but rather a person's ability to perform the task, regardless of their gender. No matter what gender a Google employee, or any employee of that matter, may be, they all are capable of producing results of the same quality. A man can produce the same results as a woman, and a woman can produce the same results as a man.
As we speak, Google has taken notice about its diversity between workers, and has taken out the effort to help improve the statistics. As stated in this article written by Drake Baer, after Google tackled issues concerning unconscious bias, there was a significant increase in statistics."For instance, Google's IO conference was 20% women this year, as opposed to 8% last year."Compared to other companies, who might not even bat an eye about this issue, I would like to acknowledge Google for taking note about this issue, and attempting to at least do something about it, but I believe it will take more than just simple workshops to fix the unconsciously biased opinion the tech industry has towards gender what it comes to job selection.
The New York Times article also stated that "Google, like many tech companies, is a man’s world." This signifies that women that wish to work in big tech industries such as Google itself, have less opportunities of getting in, because of the belief that it is an industry primarily suited for men. Even after all these years, we humans still hold the belief that just because a person is a certain gender, they are not capable of doing things. Being a top notch name in the market today, Google needs to fix its ways, and start valuing its employees based on their abilities, not on their gender. Hopefully, the effort that Google is making to rid of unconscious bias will have an affect on all of the companies out there, and the future.
