Since some people seem so shocked that I haven't had a coworker that is a WOC in years, I've created a poll to see just how rare this is. In the other thread I used the term 'office' to refer to my specific department, not agency as a whole.
So thinking about your current department (however you want to define that) what populations are represented?
In my small office we have black and asian and hispanic. But we're also in a pretty damn diverse area - you'd have to work at it to have no representation.
I feel like in order to really understand the results in the way you'd like you're going to need to delete and try again with a none of the above...
Yes to all. My workplace is very diverse. Many WOC are in leadership positions. We do not have as many black men in leadership positions.
this is for my particular location/building. I work for a very large agency with offices all over the country. I'm sure other locations, outside of the Baltimore area, are significantly less diverse. But the diversity applies to my whole building, not just my particular department.
In my job I recently left in NYC more than half were WOC, and multiple levels of leadership above me were WOC. I wasn't the only LGBT person. No one had a visible disability, though I don't know about not so visible ones.
In my new job in the boonies every single person is white and straight. I guess I'm bringing diversity by being white and LGBT?
In my small office we have black and asian and hispanic. But we're also in a pretty damn diverse area - you'd have to work at it to have no representation.
I feel like in order to really understand the results in the way you'd like you're going to need to delete and try again with a none of the above...
I know, it is really bothering me that there is no option for none of the above. Okay, deletion coming....
Post by seeyalater52 on Apr 19, 2018 15:10:20 GMT -5
Thinking about my team, all of the above except black, since one of my colleagues left last year. It's a cross-org team, though, so about 20 people which sounds like more people/a bigger sample size than others may be answering for. However, I included mental health in my definition of disability, not sure if that encompasses what you were intending.
Post by emoflamingo on Apr 19, 2018 15:11:24 GMT -5
My direct area is mostly white with one LGBT but if I add in the people I āwork forā (my position is a go between for my department and a closely related area) we have an AA woman. I know we have a new employee I coming soon and I think she is a WOC too.
My entire company (in the top 5 of my metropolitan for employers, so it is large), is more diverse in other areas and we employ a lot of contractors on H1B visas from Canada and India.
I was actually looking at the racial makeup and we are below 80% white as of the last census.
My colleagues represent many of the categories listed but overall my workplaceās diversity is low compared to large cities.
I do know likely literally hundreds of white people who have no non-white colleagues. Many parts of the Midwest are white white white. I think my high school had <1% kids of color and only white teachers for 1200+ students.
While my kidsā schools will be much more diverse than mine was, itās nothing like what my friends on the coasts have.
I'm on the app, but my office has employees from all groups except I'm not sure about disability. 2 out of 7 directors on my floor are not white. My job is pretty independent and I don't work with other groups, so I don't know who the managers are in the rest of the office. This is also just my office, we have 35,000 global employees and I have no clue about the company as a whole.
I work in telecom and my office is in the DC metro area, we moved to Michigan to live close to my stepdaughters and it's not diverse at all where we live. I come into the office a few times a year since I'm from this area and I can visit friends and family without using vacation days (I'm in the office this week)
Post by downtoearth on Apr 19, 2018 15:27:24 GMT -5
I can say yes to most of these, but does one to 5 people of each of those count as represented? Does my company actually have representativeness if less than 15% are POC, and I think we only have 2 black women and 5 black men within those POC? I don't even know about LGBT (except one guy personally) or disability. Oh and only about 20% of our company are women (including the 2-4 WOC), and <10% of the management roles are women and no WOC.
In my unit directly - 19 white men, 1 white woman (me), no POC
Post by lilypad1126 on Apr 19, 2018 15:30:11 GMT -5
In my department, there are 2 people who fit into the above categories. While the company as a whole is quite a bit larger than my department, I would say that the percent of POC is about the same.
I, unfortunately, live in a very white, very conservative area. My job previous to this was in the middle of a large metropolitan city and it was quite a bit more diverse.
Post by CrazyLucky on Apr 19, 2018 15:31:09 GMT -5
I answered for the whole site. For just my group, we're pretty racially diverse, but I am the only female. No LGBT as far as I know. My site has a very high American Indian population, too. There are ten managers - 8 white guys and 2 white women
My team changes depending on the project. On the one Iām working this week Iām one of the few white people. Also one of the few females. Our diversity extends beyond the options in the poll.
In only 2 of the 13 years with my company my boss was a white dude.
Seven of twenty-one people in my office meet one or more of the above, and collectively the only one not represented is a person with a (known to me, at least) disability.
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