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Tinder Is Target of Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

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> And Silicon Valley of late has faced criticism over a lack of diversity among its ranks, which are overwhelmingly white and male. Facebook, for example, recently disclosed that just 31 percent of its 6,500 workers worldwide were women, and in its United States offices, more than half of all employees are white.

These are two wildly different statistics to group together. 31% is low for females in the work place. However, programming is in the archetypal "male" job category along with doctors, lawyers, etc. 31% is actually the ratio of female lawyers in the US. It's also markedly better than the amount of females in executive officer positions in Fortune 500 companies, which sits at 15%.

As for the latter: of course more than half of Facebooks US employees are white! More than half of all Americans are white! Non-hispanic whites are 64% of the population, if you include anyone who self-identifies as white or European American you're at 72%. What is Facebook supposed to do, black it up?

What the hell does "black it up" mean

the same as asian it up

Hire more people that meet that demographic criteria at all costs.

Something interesting though, Facebook legal org internally is made up of more women than men. Source, I work there.

Do any other companies break down their gender ratio? I wonder what sort of ratio a company like Pep Boys (PBY) has. I would be surprised if it was significantly higher than 31%.

See significant previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970993

Yes, we're burying the current post as a dupe. That other discussion, by the way, has fallen in rank purely from user flags. There wasn't any moderation action on it.

As always, these are allegations, but some of this stuff is truly awful - especially the texts that Tinder in particular has admitted that Meeten sent. Why do people act like this? What makes them think this is ok?

>Why do people act like this? What makes them think this is ok?

making f&ck you money before the brain finished development (which goes into early adulthood) while raging hormones can easily overcome any frontal cortex reaction.

That's a shitty reason. Don't excuse his behavior as though it was his age that caused him to be a gigantic asshole. He acted badly and had peers who provided feedback that supported his behavior.

18 years olds are empowered to make decisions on whether to shoot children carrying a rifles.

This guy and his friend couldn't decide if calling a coworker a whore qualified as work appropriate.

Was he excusing it, or was he explaining it?

Pretty sure he was doing the later.....

Exactly. Like the detective pointing out the killer's master plan, he was just recounting the cause.

Don't shoot the messenger!

He was in a relationship with her that she broke off. Men and women acting irrationally after a breakup has been happening for thousands of years. It's not a new phenomenon.

Hate the word "target" in the title. It seems to imply that Wolfe could have chosen some other company to sue.

"Tinder is cause of sexual harassment lawsuit."

"and a text depicting IAC Chairman Barry Diller as a penis."

Yikes...

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