We often hear coons talk about how Black people are not prioritizing STEM but is it true? According to this report, nope! There’s a pipeline for us in sports, there’s no pipeline in tech hence why you don’t see a mass of us moving into it.
The question I want to propose to everyone.
If we are recommending our children go into school for STEM what opportunities are we going to provide for them when they graduate?
Technology companies blame the pool of job applicants for the severe shortage of blacks and Hispanics in Silicon Valley.
But these findings show that claim "does not hold water," said Darrick Hamilton, professor of economics and urban policy at The New School in New York.
"What do dominant groups say? 'We tried, we searched but there was nobody qualified.' If you look at the empirical evidence, that is just not the case,"
"The premise that if you want diversity, you have to sacrifice quality, is false," he said. His department currently has 25 African-American Ph.D. candidates. Rice University in Houston has a large number of Hispanic students.
Black and Hispanic computer scientists have degrees from top universities, but don't get hired in tech
Tech companies say there aren't enough Black and Hispanic programmers to fill demand. The numbers show they are available, but are not being hired.
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The question I want to propose to everyone.
If we are recommending our children go into school for STEM what opportunities are we going to provide for them when they graduate?