Monthly Archives: October 2014

Gender imbalances in Twitter’s workplace causes the company to face heavy scrutiny. As of October 13, 2013, Twitter had only one female employee in a male dominant workplace. Unlike Richard, I agree with the experts’ inputs.

As much as I dislike the reluctancy companies, such as Twitter’s, have towards hiring women, I think that it is necessary that the company hires employees without government intervention. It may take some time, but the company must work to counter gender imbalance in the workplace by itself for its own reasons. Additionally, even though sponsorship could create an incentive for companies to hire women, as Richard suggests, what if the company begins to hire women not because they fit the qualifications, but because if the company hires a certain amount of women the government will promote the company.

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Women should be hired because they stand out among the other candidates, not because the company feels they must hire them. This is where it becomes a long-term problem. Women, with similar or identical qualifications as their male colleagues, must try harder than because of bias against hiring women. For this reason, as Richard points out, there are many other companies with the same gender imbalance issue. This fact is especially relevant in high tech companies, however, as “only 5.7% of employed women [work] in the computer industry”.

So, I believe if Twitter works to hire more women holding the same standards its male employees, over time the gender imbalance will shrink. And, hopefully then, gender imbalance will become less common amongst other companies as well until it seems almost abnormal for their to be a gender imbalance.

Taseko remains hopeful in the fight for its proposed New Prosperity mine. However, previous rejections by the federal panel and government, as well as the Tsilhqot’in tribe’s declaration of the site, decrease the chances of Taseko getting their way.

There are many benefits highlighted by Taseko that could better BC and its economy. The project would lead to the creation of jobs, over 10,400, and the company claims that many First Nations workers would be employed. Despite this proposition, the Tsilhqot’in tribe has plans of their own to create job opportunities of their own for First Nations workers. And, they would probably not allow Taseko the right to go ahead with the project because of the problem that lead to the project’s previous rejections.

Taseko’s problem lies in their proposed plan. The original plan faced rejection due to the environmental destruction that would be caused to Little Fish Lake. So the plans were revised, only the plan’s outcome still lead to destruction. And, now with the land Taseko sought after is in the hands of the Tsilhqot’in tribe. I doubt that Taseko could manage to achieve a mutual agreement with the Tsilhqot’in people unless they somehow could find a way to leave the area unharmed and go through with the project. But, if Taseko could do this they would be changing their plans instead of putting up this fight. Taseko will take this to the Federal Court later this month. Only time will tell, but the odds are not looking in Taseko’s favor.

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