The Surprising Solution to Workplace Diversity | Arwa Mahdawi | TEDxHamburg

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11.39 ! For any of those who are doing college assignments on this one. 11.39 is the timecode where she starts talking about solutions to diversity)

[cookingwithbryan]

who else is here because of a school assignment?

[TheLivirus]

Another facet of superficial diversity is that it tends to focus on appearance, nationality, gender, race, identity, etc. Real diversity is about personality, perspective and opinion. Just because people look different doesn't mean they are different. As is often cited against racism: variance within a population is generally greater than variance between populations. Let's treat each other as the individuals we are.

[mikevincent]

Where are these case studies showing how diversity adds to the profitability of a company?

[stevealbert]

The flip side of diversity is discrimination?? That’s not true. Her whole lecture is based on a false claim. Diversity of the workplace based on anything but merit is discriminatory.

[-simplicity]

I believe this is the only video I've saved just for the appreciation of the comment section. Diversity is constantly being measured by superficial details, shouldn't in the workforce it be about individuals? You can't generalize diversity, and these days it's literally been reduced to a liberal buzzword.

[CitrusOranges]

What happened to hiring based on ability regardless of skin color?

[davidnguyen]

Let me summarize for you all:

1) blind audition/interview process focused on talent alone
2) speak up when it's too homogeneous
3) prove the profit value (or insert value here) for the case of having a diverse workforce
4) stop calling it diversity -- tokenism doesn't work

Have a great day!

[borkug]

Diversity is not a goal in itself. It's just a state. It should not be pursued explicitly. It should just be accepted and welcomed when it happens organically.
Some examples of meaningful goals are tolerance and fairness.

[enkidu]

After reading what and how she wrote about Huberman, i was 99% sure she has that job because of DEI. God, i was good.

[lovepeoplehu]

So this is the Misandrist writer from The Guardian 😂😂😂

[LordSantiagor]

If you use superficial metrics, you will incentivize superficial action. Business 101.
Of course government policies make prejudices worse, because they are prejudicial. Doesn't help anyone.

[Jandr]

As a straight white man named John I found this talk highly offensive.

If I were a woman or a 'POC' who landed my dream job these days, I think I'd be privately asking myself if I was just hired for that fact. And I'd be wondering if all my colleagues were thinking the same too.

[BLM]

Robert Putnam proved that workplace diversity is detrimental.

[m.pesique]

"Racially diverse teams outperform non-diverse ones by 35%"- big stretch from the actual McKinsey study- "Racially diverse teams are 35% more likely to have financial returns above their respective national industry medians."

[florentdevier]

Can't believe we give a voice to these people. Let alone have a laugh with them or actually agreeing.

[DaveWard-xcvd]

Affirmative action creates doubts in the minds of employers which affects their hiring practices.

[causesosasaidso]

My sweetest fantasy would be hearing you give Ted Talks on how things should be from an alternate universe populated exclusively by people you can't blame.

[midget_spinner]

Why do we only bring up diversity in white countries. But diversity in the Middle East, South America, Africa and Asia are exceptions.