Nowadays the number of the enterprises in the IT and creative industries is quickly growing and a lot of people move to the innovative hubs such as Silicon Valley or Boston where they can find a rewarding job. However, one can notice a very sharp lack of diversity in the IT companies, because the majority of the employees at all organizational levels are the white men.
There may be very different reasons that have led to the predominance of the white men in the IT sector, but racial narrow-mindedness cannot be regarded as a reason for the low level of diversity. There are not many engineers of the other races, because few people can afford to go to colleges. As it was written in the article Twitter CEO’s message to black engineers: We’re changing, in 2014 only 3,500 of the engineers who graduated from colleges were black people. One reason may be that the black people do not like mathematics and other exact sciences, but the financial issues are probably the key factor why there are so few graduates that are black. In addition, the hiring procedures in the IT companies are not up-to-date and the issue of diversity is not addressed properly. Usually such policies result in hiring the white people despite the fact that there are many women and people of other races that could work delivering the same quality.
There are still many opportunities for the minorities as long as they have excellent professional skills and feel comfortable to work in a company where the majority of the employees are white. Perhaps the companies’ personnel will become diverse in the near future, when more women and minorities obtain qualifications in sciences. It seems that the government and the companies should express more interest in increasing diversity in IT sector. Therefore the government at the local and national level should promote sciences and make education more affordable for those who do not have enough financial resources, In turn, the companies should introduce the hiring quotas if they see that the minorities have the professional skills similar to the skills of the white specialists.
References
Bray, H. (25 March 2016). Twitter CEO’s message to black engineers: We’re changing.
Boston Globe. Retrieved from https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/
03/25/twitter-ceo-make-his-case-black engineers/hpOV0RDRRr1JoaAym4b8ZP/
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