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Google's putting its money where its diversity isn't. A new initiative announced at Google I/O will pay for three months of continuing education for women and minorities in tech.
In conjunction with its third annual women techmakers panel, which this year focused on women working on robotics projects at Google, the tech titan said it was partnering with Code School to provide thousands of paid accounts for free. According to a blog post by the CEO of the for-profit online school for programming, Gregg Pollack, Google will pay for three months free for select women and minorities already in tech to expand their skills.
http://www.cnet.com/news/google-to-pay-for-women-minorities-in-tech-to-learn-more-code/
Hey Google, how about free lessons for women and minorities NOT already in tech? Free job training for people unemployed or underemployed would be more beneficial, wouldn't you agree?
msongs
(67,478 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)and bring back on the job training to meet your needs instead of bringing in cheap labor and moving operations offshore. Nothing new, just do what we used to do when the USA was doing well.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)and hence its unlikely that they can support what you are proposing.
they can narrowly claim a business interest for what they are currently doing, any more than that and they'll get sued by a white guy claiming discrimination.