The odd thing for me is that from a corporate governance standpoint there is absolutely no upside to allowing discriminatory practices to take place. Its just a liability waiting to happen.
My experience is that corporate "evil" is almost always underpinned by a profit motive, and the emotional way complaints like these are couched have no such component. For example, if they can systematically underpay women to perform the same work as their male colleagues why aren't they hiring more of them? The obvious analog being that when labour can be outsourced or passed off onto minimum-wage/temp staff they aren't shy about doing that wholesale are they?!?
To an extent I can see diversity hiring practices actively feeding the issue; because if you hire based on gender/ethnicity over (career) experience, that really ought to be reflected in the pay structure. Especially so as more time-served candidates will likely show benefits of their experience in knowing their market worth, as expressed in negotiating an initial salary and knowing how to ascend the slippery pole of corporate office politics.
The reality is that talent doesn't mean shit. What matters is how good or bad the individual is at playing the social "game" of the business environment. If the key to progression is getting an invite to the boss's weekend poker game, then you need to ingratiate yourself sufficiently to get an invite, then network like a little whore once you're in. Because if you have the support above you in the hierarchy then you have the tools in place to bury/offset the blame on anything that goes wrong, and allies to back you when you succeed based on no merit of your own! This is the fertile soil that allows people to "fail upwards".
This is what i noticed in IT companys
They wanna hire woman, but can't find them.
Woman always underperform through getting jobs based on there sex and quota's rather then skill
Woman stop working after x period of time and focus more on family which investing in woman is less interesting ( even university's camp with this problem where most woman simple fall off in the market job to get kids and bail out of the market entirely = waste ).
Picking up kids at daycare is mostly woman activity still today, they plan there work around the day, not there day around there work big difference here.
Woman work shorter because kids
Woman get pregnant = long period of time gone still gotta pay. ( they leave school trajection late and kids follow not long after, huge burden for the company ).
Lots of competition for company's to hire woman to fill quota's, but they never go anywhere or move away.
Males u don't have this problem.
I worked on a IT department of the biggest construction company headquarters in my country, 50k people strong. And the only thing i saw was 1 girl in the entire tech industry, even on my eduction no girls where found that day. The one chick that was there left soon after as she married a guy from some other department and called it quits to focus on her upcoming kid and some other stuff. Not like anybody cared, as she was god awful at her job.
Now don't get me wrong, there are woman who will do the job and will push themselves forwards and more woman move into tech but the chance of finding one was as rare as a unicorn in some segments that would stay and perform like a male.
Just saying as a government get 50% of your labor being woman is laughable idiotic because u can't even find them and the moment u do find some u can't even keep them. U straight up gotta start bidding wars and for what? some imaginairy quota they don't even care about?
And this is not just IT, this is for a lot industry even lawyers. Very very few female lawyers are found that go the extra mile to move upwards in the same manner. The higher the salary's go, the less likely woman will stick for the simple reason, they marry a guy with good income and call it quits to focus on more important things in there life called kids and finding there own "identity through hobby's".
Hell its even a big thing here with university's where they want to get rid of woman in certain segments because most of them will never be active in the work place. We have lots of girls that wil sit until they are 30 in school get there degree, find a guy marry and move out of it the next day to never been seen again. We had a chick in the netherlands that got huge flak for advertising how to play the market for just this and she gave zero fucks . Different priority's.
Now with blizzard, obviously there is going to be a bigger female male ratio for the simple fact that blizzard exists out of lots and lots and lots of departments that also have absolutely nothing to do with games itself. That will attract female employee's. I am also not shocked why there is this fratboy culture because i will not be shocked if there are entire departments existing only out of men because of the issue's i state above.
If California wants to change this, they need to start reprogramming woman or make things so attractive through subsidizing they rather stay at the work place then sit at home because company's sure as hell won't pay for it. but even then when u get higher up in the pay grade they will still leave. because at the end of the day woman work differently and have different priority's.
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