Is diversity only defined as gender diversity?
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We rarely talking about supporting the Jewish, for example, or Mexicans, or gays representation in engineering. What is the philosohpy at play here? And what if someday women became the majority, would you then fight to bring men back up to parity?
She didn't have answers, which to me just made me wonder if she was fighting for a vision of equality, or promoting her in-group.
I know that's not what you're saying, but should minorities have to meet the burden to satisfy the majority in society for them to validate what they may be experiencing?
In the working world, diversity is something I look for in leadership first, down to management, down to front lines, instead of working up the ranks. Diversity doesn't seem to exist if it's not leadership downwards.
Gender diversity is real. All progress on diversity is good as long as voice and support is lent to all groups affected by a lack of diversity.
I wonder if the current gender diversity conversation indirectly has appropriated the voice of diversity issues groups like our visible minorities may experience.