Diversity Policies Rarely Make Companies Fairer, Feel Threatening to White Men

Of course "diversity" policies don't make companies fairer. Treating people differently because of bodily attributes is fundamentally unfair.

And I don't oppose this stuff because I feel threatened. I oppose it because chopping up humanity according to notions of supposed ethnicity is barbaric, and we're in the process of getting over it, even if some people will have to be dragged along.

> Currently, diversity initiatives’ strongest accomplishment may actually be protecting the organization from litigation

Cynical: works as intended?

There are companies which prefer their employees to come from a short set of schools.

How would it help them if they have diverse employees coming from the same limited set?

This article is misleading to the point of being dishonest, imho - if you read the first study cited, it suggests many different policies are effective, which they dismiss in the article by saying that not "all" policies are effective.

From the study abstract:

"Efforts to moderate managerial bias through diversity training and diversity evaluations are least effective at increasing the share of white women, black women, and black men in management. Efforts to attack social isolation through mentoring and networking show modest effects. Efforts to establish responsibility for diversity lead to the broadest increases in managerial diversity. Moreover, organizations that establish responsibility see better effects from diversity training and evaluations, networking, and mentoring. Employers subject to federal affirmative action edicts, who typically assign responsibility for compliance to a manager, also see stronger effects from some programs."

And also threatening to black men because of the threatened white men.