Yeah, I read that, but it still wasn't clear to me.
>Underrepresented Group This can be defined as a group whose percentage of the population in a given group is lower than their percentage of the population of country, community, organization or otherwise.
I don't know what the "given group" is here. Is it Gitlab employees? Gitlab software engineers? Software engineers in the US? Software engineers in the Netherlands? Software engineers in the world?
I also don't know what larger population they're referring to. The cities with Gitlab employees? The US? The Netherlands? Countries with Gitlab employees? The world? Gitlab employees?
For some pairs of values atheist is likely underrepresented, but for most pairs I think atheist wouldn't be underrepresented.
I don't think their culture aligns with the definitions written in the definitions section:
Women is [a] gender term based on self-identification.
but then immediately after when defining Privilege we get
On average women were paid $0.78 for every $1 a man makes.
Pretty likely that what they mean here is female and male rather than man and woman - the person writing this is probably not that used to talking about women and females differently.
Pretty likely trans women make less than cis women.[1] Pretty unlikely the source data gendered trans people consistently. And pretty likely rounding affected the number more. Under 1% of people are trans.
> Underrepresented Group This can be defined as a group whose percentage of the population in a given group is lower than their percentage of the population of country, community, organization or otherwise.
So basically they dictate policy based on population representation instead of what's actually coming through education. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Could you clarify what you mean by “coming through education”?
I would’ve thought that population representation is the definition of underrepresented because it shows they are underrepresented in the population.
But I am interested if there is another way to measure this.
Does that mean less qualified woman get jobs that based on merit alone rightfully are deserved by men?
What about Asians? They're over represented in engineering roles, should we stop hiring them and hire more white males to "even it out"? Or is it because they're a minority it's ok to have over representation? Do you realise that makes white people under represented? Do you just not care because they have privilege and this evens it out?
Don't get me wrong, I love seeing woman in tech, I'm aware of the history of toxic behavior that prevents them from joining and pushed them out in the 70s and I do encourage initiatives to improve their representation but I draw the line at negative discrimination, that Marxist crap does nobody any good ever.
I also wonder what their precise definition of "underrepresented" is.