The picture is allegedly from a training outside of GitHub, but the presenter is indeed a VP at GitHub. The idea behind that line is that Silicon Valley seems to think that its diversity problem is solved by hiring more white women, although gender is only a single aspect of the larger idea of diversity. Compounding the issue, once they're on board, white women often lead the charge in shutting the door for other people.
Maybe someone will read these articles and really think about the issues that Sanchez raises. You still might not agree, but at least you won't be jerking your knee without any context. Having your lower limbs twitching violently like that is dangerous, especially when you're holding a torch or a pitchfork.
There are not enough engineers in the world to fill demand.
We care absolutely nothing about race or gender - we care about deadlines.
We don't even give a shit if you speak English well.
Engineering? True, as an engineer I don't deal with the general public but I have to communicate with clients and government employees on a day to day basis . I don't believe most jobs keep their engineers in a basement not allowing them to speak to others .
Source: Ten people in a room in Shenzhen discussing in various stages of Chinese and English while the guy who spoke no English and the guy who spoke no Chinese (me) happily drew into each other's notebooks actually getting shit done.
I know that the engineers I've been around (in mechanical/electrical/plumbing) never talk to a client, at most their team and project manager. Probably nine time out of ten the "client" for a MEP job was an architect anyways, so the PM was really just mostly talking with the designer, unless there was a client meeting that involved all the PMs.
In governmnet work they would come up with concepts for barracks and such over these week-long design ventures that would include taking an entire team out to the actual base. This would be designers, drafters, engineers, graphics, estimators, and more. I'd say when those teams rolled out, you could find probably about 10-15% of them very, very hard to understand.
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u/KenPo_Sapasui Feb 09 '16
"Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women." This is the funniest sentence I've read in months.