Google Looks Into Unconscious Bias As Possible Reason For Lack of Diversity
While diversity is something that many companies want to have it is not always easiest to find a uniquely diverse crew with the skill sets and abilities you need to achieve the success that you want. That does not mean that people are not talented or skilled, it is just that, in this world, and particularly in America, the majority of the people who interview for jobs-particularly in the tech world-are probably going to be white males.
This is definitely reflected in Google's workforce, which is routinely criticized for their diversity problem. 70% of their employees are male. 61% of the workforce is white. Only 21% of the leadership team are women.
And its not for lack of trying. Google has actually invested time and energy in trying to figure why their employment reflects these figures.
Google HR director Laszlo Bock didn't even realize that this could be the case, but reexamined the workforce when he read a New York Times article of a Yale University study which explicitly described that science professors at universities in American inherently regard female undergraduate students as less competent in science.
It is not intentional; its just one of those things that people pick up in their lifetime and have to learn how to see it so they can change it.
Bock, near-jokingly referred to this bias 'This is a pretty genteel environment, and you don't usually see outright manifestations of bias. Occasionally you'll have some idiot do something stupid and hurtful, and I like to fire those people.'
And Bock agrees that diversity isn't just better for the workplace; he understands that it is better for business too.
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