Amazon Has a White Man Problem | Feminists claim highly successful tech companies, all started by men, would be even more successful if they had more affirmative action for women. Seems unlikely.

Xerethor · 2019-03-10T06:56:44+00:00

Why aren’t women starting their own companies in tech/engineering/STEM fields if they believe that they can do just as good or even better? Why bother even working for a man at all ?

fengpi · 2019-03-10T05:23:17+00:00

For all the advances Amazon has made, it still can’t seem to figure out diversity.

I love how a young, hip, fresh out of school, white-as-Antarctica journalist chick can sit in her office, sip her butterscotch ristretto and tell everyone way more successful than herself exactly what their problem is and the only possible solution is her deeply heartfelt wish: a corporation which runs on Social Justice in lieu of goods or services and makes lots and lots of money by employing Brazilians, Bolivians, Bermudans, Barbadians, Bangledeshis and so on in proportion to their percentage of the human family.

"Did we hire a Bahraini? No? That's a billion-dollar idea! Fire a Chinese to make room! We've got too many of them already. There aren't any qualified Bahraini's? Hah! Go out and make one! They can learn on the job. Oh, and make sure she's wearing one of those black thingies with the eye-slits, those look good on the promotional materials we send-out."

Just hire people according to their ethnicity in exactly the right proportions, and you'll just conjure-up billions of dollars without making a single sale.

Amazon ultimately did an about-face, agreeing to adopt a practice to include women and minorities when considering new board candidates.

Thank god! Surely the racist old misogynists wouldn't have even looked at such qualified applicants before that point. Another win for (white) women and, uh, maybe some people of color too.

pepe_the_third · 2019-03-10T05:20:54+00:00

We also need equal representation for the Icelanders and the Burmese. Chop chop, feminists.

tenchineuro · 2019-03-10T11:20:56+00:00

“All these companies have increasing stock prices,” Pao tells OneZero. “You wonder, though, how much more value they could have generated if they had been inclusive from the start. If you aren’t reflective of your customer base, and you’re not representing your worker base, you’re not building the best company possible and the best business possible.”

This is nonsense.

Richard Warr, head of the Department of Business Management at North Carolina State’s Poole College of Management, co-authored a 2018 study that came to similar conclusions: Being inclusive makes a company more innovative in terms of product innovations and patent creation.

Often claimed, never proven. In fact, the data shows otherwise, if this were actually true then no non-diverse company could compete with a diverse company, and yet all the big companies have limited diversity. They hire primarily by ability, not race and sex (often there is nepotism involved).

biscuitgravy · 2019-03-10T11:40:47+00:00

His wife is now the richest woman in America. How much better "affirmative action" can you get than marriage and divorce?

2019-03-10T10:07:10+00:00

Why don't you split-arses actually get off your ever widening asses and create some of these businesses then?

"That sounds HAAAAARD. I want YOU to do all the hard work and I'll come in and supervise once all the money is there."

Also two words: Carly Fiorina.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2019-03-10T13:49:56+00:00

So start a company with only nonwhite empowered womyn led according to feminist doctrine.

Do that instead of trying to infiltrate other companies.

Logically they should immediately out-compete any less woke company because gurl power.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2019-03-10T07:47:38+00:00

They are getting their word order wrong those rascals.

They mean the women would be more successful if hired by high successful tech companies.

chazfarote · 2019-03-10T15:53:00+00:00

I don't want to stir the pot, but this goes back to not enough women in STEM fields, but they don't sign up in the first place.

DJ-Roukan · 2019-03-10T14:20:03+00:00

Diversity over production is like feelings over facts. Not whether it's right or wrong, but how you feel about it.

...and that is why our educational system has failed to like 24th among first world countries. This nonsense has taken priority over education and work ethic.

S3xb3ard · 2019-03-10T17:27:59+00:00

This is garbage.

The proportion of male executives was similar to the proportion of male workers, with a job described as underpaid and dangerous by the article, which threw a shit fit over the fact that there isn’t enough diversity among executives and suggesting changes, while giving a minimal obligatory nod to those on the work floor. So it’s okay for men to take all the rough, dangerous work, but god forbid they do anything but hire an arbitrarily-based demographically “balanced” board of directors. The entitlement here is ridiculous.

DirtyPedro · 2019-03-10T14:25:12+00:00

Really tired of of forced diversity. If they want equal numbers, equal numbers of women should take programing classes and pursue technology careers, simple as that. I saw my alma mater bragging about their staff diversity due to organized action to make it more diverse, was cliche and tokenizing. All they need to do is focus on doing the best job possible and hiring the most qualified people - likely to still be diverse. Their obsession with gender and skin color in the first place is part of the problem. A majority of middle school teachers are female, I understand more females pursue that career, so I don't go protest the school board until they hire equal numbers of men for those position when 5 times more women are applying. That would be sexist, just like how it's sexist and racist when people go after companies for this. It's not their fault if the majority of qualified applicants are white males. Diversity comes from the initiative of the underrepresented people, overwhelmingly the lack of diversity isn't due to discrimination of any type. The only way to enforce these types of affirmative action policies is through discrimination, plain and simple, which should be ethically abhorrent to all. Incentivising or forcing female and minority hiring only takes away from the initiative that these individuals took to distinguish themselves instead of celebrating each individual's qualifications and achievements. In reality, that sort of backwards thinking actually only perpetuates and enforces institutionalized sexism and racism rather than actually normalizing diversity.

Mode1961 · 2019-03-10T15:11:41+00:00

I have said it before and I will say it again.

If the government came out tomorrow and that mandated that all companies have 50% female CEOs, Every one of those positions would be filled with Upper Class / Rich white women, which is what this is all about, a power grab by white women from MEN.

that_other_guy_ · 2019-03-10T16:25:24+00:00

If business would be made more successful by employing more women, how come more women aren't starting successful businesses?

nikolatesla86 · 2019-03-10T18:20:45+00:00

Show correlation between success and diversity and you have an argument, otherwise virtue signaling.

Water_Bottle_Lord · 2019-03-10T14:45:48+00:00

If you are a women and want more women at amazon, fucking work there instead of bitching about it.

assraider21 · 2019-03-10T14:29:05+00:00

I wonder what reasonable explanation the feminists have presented the world with this time. The last reasonable explanation they gave was about how men don’t need to spread their legs and how men can’t be raped because boners are voluntary (btw I heard this from my chemistry teacher, who’s a feminist, obviously)

Asbjoern135 · 2019-03-10T15:33:41+00:00

Amazon is worth 800 billion dollars, so let's just assume that Bezos is one greedy motherfucker, why would he then hire incompetent people to squander his money and let his competition get all the qualified workers

gadabout13 · 2019-03-10T17:17:43+00:00

Full of shit. Too many studies show the opposite.

Hot4M · 2019-03-10T17:22:11+00:00

Everyone be aware! If you a successful white male you are no longer allowed to work with other white males. You must be plotting against every other group on the planet. You are evil./s

McFeely_Smackup · 2019-03-10T17:27:56+00:00

“All these companies have increasing stock prices,” Pao tells OneZero. “You wonder, though, how much more value they could have generated if they had been inclusive from the start.

It sounds like Ellen hasn't learned anything at all.

2019-03-10T21:19:11+00:00

So Jeff Bezos started a $800 billion company that employs more than 600,000 people and serves millions, and some fuckers still complain!

What the fuck is wrong with some people!!!

whatevescom · 2019-03-11T03:14:51+00:00

I need to find the link to the article about the women that decided to start an all female company. She hired top talent and in less than a year she hated going to work and it was the most toxic place she had ever worked.

The biggest problem with the whole conversation is that women are not inherently better than men. Some people are better than others.

Being a particular gender or race basically has nothing to do with your success in anything. Except child birth I guess..

Jackson2615 · 2019-03-11T04:30:24+00:00

Affirmative action for women, an adjective that describes when women join a business or company, after a man has taken all the risks and put up the money to start the business, worked 24/7 to get the business established and prosperous, and demand to be given promotions and positions where they can benefit from the work of others without taking any risks...……………………...

BetterBadIdeas · 2019-03-11T17:04:22+00:00

Anyone else starting to see articles like this as just feminists pointing at things they want and shouting "gimme"?

abc1231231231234 · 2019-03-10T15:40:50+00:00

Theranos.

bman0001 · 2019-03-10T17:08:50+00:00

Collectivists gonna categorize people. It's the only thing they know how to do.

dwit34a · 2019-03-10T06:45:36+00:00

White men have access to capital and networks non-white men don't. This is how white men reproduce and maintain their power. And we need to change it if we are to survive as a country or species.

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