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- _niko2
Punches for the Toronto star, their articles are on par with the Toronto sun these days.
Headline:
“Zero Black or Indigenous women are on track for the corner office in a majority of big companies, survey finds”
Study found 89 per cent of the organizations surveyed have zero Black women “in the pipeline to the leadership level, and 91 per cent have zero Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit and Métis) women.”
The Canadian black population is 4% so if half are women then that means 2% but according to the article 11% of corporations have black women in the pipeline so really they are OVER-represented by a factor of 4x same for indigenous women who make up 2.5% of the Canadian population but according to this article make up 9% of these leadership roles.
Am I missing something? It sounds like they are doing ok but the star spins it to make it sound that there are 0% of these women being represented.
- For starters, you’re comparing the percentage of companies with the percentage of people... that doesn’t make any sensenb
- The star has been a silly paper for a while nowGnash
- Nb why should the percentage change population vs companies? So if the population is 50% women it makes sense that the workforce is 50% women too._niko
- So it’s expected that 50% of companies in Canada have a female CEO. Which is great, But the star would say ZERO women CEOs in 50% of companies._niko
- What you’re missing is that it isn’t 11% of companies are black or indigenous. It’s that 11% might have one. They are still very UNDERrepresented.monospaced
- They aren’t giving you the % of non white employees in leadership either. That would be too useful for a fair comparison.monospaced
- Sooo you're not comparing population vs workforce or population vs employees. You're comparing population vs companies.nb
- Some companies have 50,000 employees, others have 3 employees. So 1/50000 or 1/3 constitutes a mark in that 11% category of companies.nb
- I'm not making a moral argument here, I'm just explaining why your numbers don't line up. Speaking strictly from a statistic point of viewnb