Ever since the beginning of time, the men in the world have dominated our society, taking on business, sports and other areas of expertise, leaving little or no room for women to go into these areas of work. The lack of diversity in these major companies have caused women to face the problematic issues of discrimination and injustice.
Farhad Manjoo, the author of the article "Exposing Hidden Bias at Google" writes about the discrimination of gender and race as he compares the statistics found. The article states that "over all, seven out of ten people who work at Google are male. Men make up 3 percent of Google's engineering employees and 79 percent of its managers. "By looking at the demographics of the employees, one can immediately see the great significance of the number of male employees to those of women. Based on preconceived notions of women and their ability to only complete the straightforward tasks, men still do not see women being on even grounds as them concerning things such as capabilities and education.
Google's lack of diversity is not completely their fault as to the lack of interest of computer technology. To improve the diversity with the company, Google has sponsored programs in order to promote it to women. Other attempts made include the workshops being set up in order to to change the variety of gender and race. "And so they are undertaking a long-term effort to improve these numbers, the centerpiece of which is a series of workshops aimed at making Google’s culture more accepting of diversity."The simplest things and efforts can make the biggest impact. With a more diversity in the company, it provides a perspective s from not only one mind, but hundreds, with different views and takes which all could be affected by my gender, race and culture.
The hidden bias is to be defined as "reflexive preferences that shape most people's world views, and that can profoundly affect how welcoming and open a workplace is to different people and ideas." Hidden bias are to be found all around, which isn't something to be noticed quite often. As they constantly show up in our daily lives, we can sometimes be accustomed to not even seeing it. Because it is so natural, we don't even notice it. But because of the bias and discrimination within the technology companies such as Google, conflicts concerning the diversity of employees are coming to view as it must come to an end, where companies and not a majority of males.
