As a shock to absolutely no one, Uber is mostly pasty, male at the top

Uber has published its first ever diversity report today, revealing that the car-hailing biz is, unsurprisingly, dominated by white males like most major American technology companies. The ride-sharing app maker has been hit by a series of scandals highlighting a toxic corporate culture steeped in sexual harassment, leadership …

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds racist!

The answer to racism is not yet more racism, yet that appears to be the only solution.

Why not outlaw racism, at the government and legal level? By looking, recording and acting on an individuals race a government is encouraging racism.

In Canada our foundational documents give special status to certain Canadians based on race, religion, ethnicity, even language. How can a society not be racist when it is required by law? When some races, rather than individuals, are seen as more deserving of assistance, as deserving of special political and legal status, there will always be racism, a constant claim by some groups that they should have special status.

End racism by outlawing it in our political and legal systems, then society will follow. When citizens are seen as individuals rather members of a racial group there can be no equality.

[Shrinedawg]

Shockingly, the numbers were presented without context.

based on the 2010 US Census, the US was 63% white, 12% black, and 4.8% Asian.

So, whites are actually sharply under-represented (63% vs 49%), and Asians have SIX times the representation(4.8% vs 30.0%). Blacks are under represented by the smallest percentage difference (12% vs 8.8%).

[diodesign]

Re: Shockingly, the numbers were presented without context.

Yeah, now look at the leadership gender/race figures.

C.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Shockingly, the numbers were presented without context.

Can we a diversity report for "The Register"?

[Cuddles]

Re: Shockingly, the numbers were presented without context.

"So, whites are actually sharply under-represented (63% vs 49%), and Asians have SIX times the representation(4.8% vs 30.0%). Blacks are under represented by the smallest percentage difference (12% vs 8.8%)."

Can't help noticing you missed out a fairly significant segment there - Hispanics make up 16.3% of the US population, but only 5.6% of Uber.

Also, no, blacks are not under-represented by the smallest percentage difference - 8.8 compared to 12 is a 27% difference, while whites are only under-represented by 22%. What you may have meant was a percentage point difference, which is a very different thing and not particularly relevant for this kind of comparison since minorities will always have small numbers - if Uber had 0 black employees, that would still only be 12 percentage points off the national demographic, while whites already have a larger difference at 50% representation.

[Lars]

Re: Shockingly, the numbers were presented without context.

Whatever, but that adds up to 79,8%, what about the 20,2%. A link perhaps, say for 2015.

[Youngone]

SOP

I got into trouble when I laughed at the 5 white, middle-aged men Head Office sent to lecture us about diversity.

My colleagues could not see the irony, but then most of them are institutionalised.

I see we have won an award as "The Employer of Choice for Gender Equality" whatever that means, but there is only one woman in a leadership role, and no-one can quite figure out how she dresses herself in the morning.

[WatAWorld]

Re: SOP

Would you have laughed if IBM or HP or Yahoo sent 5 white, middle-aged women from head office?

You see the point then, you see how the danger of becoming the joke you think other people are.

[ecofeco]

Re: SOP

It went right over your head, didn't it?

Why didn't they send a mixed group?

And yes, if they had sent a group of five of any one race and gender, it would still have been laughable.

[A Non e-mouse]

Re: SOP

I heard a report the other day that a 28-person panel looking into pregnancy issues was comprised entirely of men.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: SOP

It might have been a certain time in the calender.

[WatAWorld]

Is it really necessary to troll us with racist clickbait headlines?

Is it really necessary to troll us with racist clickbait headlines?

Is it really so hard for you guys to attract readers that you need to become bottom feeders?

No amateur trolls for the Reg. Like The Guardian and Breibart you only employ the finest most highly educationed professional trolls.

[ecofeco]

Re: Is it really necessary to troll us with racist clickbait headlines?

Because Uber hasn't been on record as being very very stupid?

Do you keep up with the news?

[Infernoz]

This R-type Evolutionary (Left) Psychology is poisonous in a competitive environment!

Why the frack should/must any business support discrimination against merit (good), sex (male) and race (native), which will be destructive to the local country, their productivity and profits!

Diversity and equality are Cultural Marxist sabotage lies; because the two sexes have a significantly different mix of capabilities and mental drives, all individuals differ in abilities, and much acceptance of other races/groups becomes disastrous for the local people via loss of wages and population ratio decline. There are urgent biological, social and economic stability reasons, including health, reproduction, and population maintenance why our girls and women must stop making a career a priority; they are effectively stabbing themselves, their genes, and their country/race in the back!

Only K-type Evolutionary Psychology is sustainable in a competitive environment i.e. more emphasis on (proven useful) traditional roles for women, merit, quality, loyalty, and less acceptance of other groups/races.

R-type Evolutionary Psychology only works when there are plentiful resources and little competition; something socialist countries can only provide the illusion of for limited periods before poverty or collapse! Resources eventually reach current-technology/finite-supply limits and can shrink with time for increasingly less economical to extract, fossil resources.

See: The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics by Anonymous Conservative and http://www.returnofkings.com/ for the many reasons why Left Wing poison like this are so very stupid and has significantly damaged the survival of all developed countries, and even some developing nations!

If we let this nonsense persist, Hard Right politicians or dictators must eventually rise to power in affected countries, to save them by crushing the destructive R-type activists, so there is a K-type environment to recover in e.g. as occurred Chile and Argentina.

[Geronimo!]

Re: This R-type Evolutionary (Left) Psychology is poisonous in a competitive environment!

WTF?!

You actually believe this yourself, don't you?

Women: Reproduce, that's all you've been destined for? Male: Superior in every way imaginable (Apart from breeding...)?

The issue at hand is plain and simple:

If we'd treat every single human being as equal and would not be a misogynist, racist nutcase like ... (Fill in the dots yourself please), then yes, we might still see certain groups (Be it gender- or race-based) being represented more in certain professions.

But then one could say, it is because these people were actually fitter to do the job.

As long as companies rather hire white males for leadership roles and asians for tech jobs (You almost would assume such) etc. - we'll need to make sure that other groups will get their share.

If we're not grown up enough to share and be non-biased, then parenting is needed, which is what a decent government does (should do) in such cases.

[Stuart 22]

Re: This R-type Evolutionary (Left) Psychology is poisonous in a competitive environment!

Sorry Infernoz about the downvote for forgetting the Joke icon.

[Anonymous Coward]

White males, sure

The real question is how the percentage of "former frat bros who would be members of the entitled and snotty frat that gets it in the end in any movie about college life" compares to other companies. I'll bet they are in the lead over everyone except perhaps Accenture in that category.

[getHandle]

Uber is mostly pasty, male at the top

They've got a Cornish office? Oob-arr maybe?

[pgm]

Do the math

Most of the folks coming out of college with tech backgrounds are male and mostly white and Asian.

So if your talent pool is 90% of the latter,why would you expect the numbers not to represent the talent pool?

[Anonymous Coward]

What is it with all these articles about diversity?

It seems to me the only way to change it is to be racist/sexist and employ people people based on race or gender to fill a quota.

This will not work, everyone should be employed based on ability.

I've said this before but if you want to change the status quo then it's down to how you educate your children.

Also, does anyone have the % numbers for white males in boardrooms in China and India? Maybe we should start telling them who to employ.

[Anonymous Coward]

"This will not work, everyone should be employed based on ability."

In the real world, able candidates are routinely rejected for their sex, the colour of their skin, the fact that they did or didn't go to University X, the fact that their father is or is not a member of the same golf club as the hiring manager, etc.

[Anonymous Coward]

Another way

There is, in fact, another way of increasing "diversity" in the workplace. It's a bit naughty, but it's totally legal. Unlike discriminatory hiring practices. You ask your current employees if they might perhaps want to reconsider their "racial" identity. You, for example, you're a good sport, and you can't seriously deny that some of your ancestors came from Africa, can you? I'm guessing probably all of them did, if you go back far enough. Are you sure you don't consider yourself a bit, sort of, African? Could you perhaps tick this box, please, just for a laugh? I'll buy you a pint.

[jake]

Here's a real shocker!

I hire the right people for the job ... and quite frankly, if the right people are doing the job, and the company is running as it should, I don't give a shit about the sex/race/creed/colo(u)r balance. Anybody who thinks I should hire sub-par employees just to "balance corporate diversity" at the expense of corporate performance and bottom line can kiss my pasty white male butt.

That said, caucasian males are a distinct minority around here ... there is only one, and he ain't me ;-)

[Anonymous Coward]

Back to the real world

Has the author ever hired technical people? In the real world almost all applicants are male and asians are over-represneted compared to the proportion in the population, in fact exactly like the employee breakdown given.

Education is not the answer because when given the economic freedom and a free choice few women choose technical subjects and the more choice they are give, for example in Sweden, the more pronounced this is.

The other question that should be asked is why no one ever raises the gender diversity when there is a preponderance of men but the job is low status such as street cleaning, sewage work etc, or the preponderance is female such as teachers or nurses. Along similar lines why are there endless programs, and financial assistance for female students and next to nothing for boys despite doing better than boys in almost every area? We could broaden this to the vastly larger amounts of money spent on womens health than men's despite mens lower life expectancy, campaigns like VAWG to prevent violence against women and girls despite most violence being against men (and the most frequent child abuse being by women against boys). We could then look at the huge disparity in the proportion of women sent to jail, the sentence length and the proportion of sentence served for women and men convicted of the same offence.

The inability to accept that any apparent disadvantage to women could arise from anything but discrinination and the inability to accept and disadvanatge to men is almost universal. Consider the World Economic Forums Global Gender Gap Report which defines inequality as disadvantage to women and treats any disadvantage to men as equality quite explicitly. There is a lot of sexism around but the main target is not women.