Engineering's stark racial inequalities (U.K.)

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6 points·SmkyMt··13 comments

Race may not be working as postulated here. Not having minority friends can promote racism, but that goes both ways. Being a minority and not socializing with the majority much means minority STEM job candidates may not understand common assumptions, jargon, and other key details. Being disconnected from employers socially can lead to resumes and interviews missing the mark. Instead of calling for employers to be less racist it might be more effective to find more ways and motivations for minority STEM graduates to integrate with the subculture.

If this was really about race (as opposed to skills) non-racist companies would be more effective and out-compete the rest, especially given current shortage. These companies would probably be started by the discriminated people in the first place. Pervasive unjust discrimination is only possible in mono and oligopolies and/or if the law compels it.

Racism can't exist because it's inefficient? Great! Glad we got that little "racism" problem solved. Good work.

If what you call racism is inefficient, you should explain what market barriers prevent its disappearance, for developers in the developed world, in the UK in particular.

If its efficient, by calling it a problem you're implicitly saying that some people - presumably company owners? - should make their companies & teams less efficient, which is another way of saying they should waste resources. Even if some would agree with you, by doing that they would open themselves to a danger of being outcompeted by more efficient entities.

I like the methodology of this study, does anyone know of something similar in the US for CS grads?

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