I posted about how the iOS development space is very white, male, and straight. A lot of white, male, straight people seemed to think this was me telling them they’re doing something wrong.
I said that I don’t see a lot of people like me in my field. If your first reaction to that is defensive in any way, you’re the problem. You need to examine why that makes you react defensively. That’s my advice on how to improve diversity. Interrogate your own bias.
@shantini same in academics. Lots of white cis male dominating. Every time there are initiatives to increase women and racial diversity in higher positions it’s seen as “biased” and “not recruiting the best”. Don’t they really see that they’re basically defending that a high percentage of white, cis male are better than the rest and insinuating that if there’s low diversity is because others aren’t as good as they are?
