[Ws2-diversity] Draft 01 Diversity Report

[Malcolm Hutty]

On 23/02/2017 01:23, Julie Hammer wrote:
> Achieving diversity in skills should not be seen as a choice between
> skills and diversity which excludes participation, but rather one which
> values many skills sets and facilitates inclusion and broad participation. 
> 

I'm not sure I understand this sentence.

I was getting the impression that this groups' fundamental understanding
of the term "diversity" is to exclude white people and men from
consideration for certain positions, on the grounds that we've got too
many of them already.

I assumed this is why the diversity report omits what I would have
thought was the most obvious expectation, a commitment to avoid racial
or sexual discrimination.

Am I mistaken? If so, why is there no such commitment?

Malcolm
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