Tuesday, April 4, 2017
week 9?
I missed a few of these posts but I think I have the right day for it, anyways this week we had a guest speaker who discussed with us the differences in diversity in jobs in different areas. There is noticeable differences in both gender and ethnicity in the data that our guest speaker provided, which I found rather interesting. Is there really a reason why this would occur? I know that we discussed reasons for this occurrence, how jobs with generally more chances for creative thinking to be involved have a greater amount of diversity. And with diversity does come new ideas that can branch off to something amazing, and with everyone having synergy and working together it allows for better outcomes. Which leads to why would diversity be so low in other areas, sure theres less chance for creativity but the numbers are very drastically lower that it is concerning. Why do you think theres such a split and what do you think can be done to lower this?
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Hi Caleb,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed our topic and guest speaker during that week as well. I like your comment where you say, "With diversity does come new ideas that can branch off to something amazing, and with everyone having synergy and working together it allows for better outcomes". I think this is true, that with collaboration between more diverse people, better ideas are the result. I feel that minorities and women are underrepresented in STEM fields because there is this idea that white males are smarter and better in the science field, and this just isn't true. That may be one of the contributing factors, what do you think? Anyway, thanks for sharing!