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"the Dalberg and Intel report suggests a tech company with $10mn in operating profits could increase that by $1.5m to $2m by increasing minority representation five percentage points"
I find it difficult to believe that there isn't a single company in Silicon Valley (which is both socially liberal and economically capitalistic) that hasn't already achieved spectacular success by doing exactly that * - ergo, I believe that statement to be empirically false.
It also does not stand up to logical scrutiny. If a company is paying all its employees the same for the same position, regardless of gender or minority status, then given equal competence, the output would not change. So this statement is either claiming that women and minorities are MORE competent than white men, or (more plausibly) that you can pay equally competent women and minorities less for the same work.
* and if anyone had done that, you can bet that it would be trumpeted to high heaven for all to hear and behold
Biting the hand that feeds IT
