Last year, I took a class that focused on race and gender equality. This editorial news article, from The New York Times, takes a closer look at the distribution of gender of Twitter’s board members. The gender distribution of Twitter’s user base in 2013 was approximately 53% female and 47% male, so it was strange to find that there were no women board members. I believe that having women on the board would be extremely helpful in Twitter’s case, as adding women would not only improve the company’s image, it would also give some insight on the majority of the social networking site’s users. The article The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits, suggests that there are often many downsides that come along with exercising “social responsibility”, and that there is no place for it in business, unless it has to do with increasing profits. I would disagree with this point in Twitter’s case, as I feel that being gender inclusive is a “social responsibility”, and that Twitter should reconsider their diversity.
The article goes on to talk abut the lack of women in the technology industry as a whole. I took special interest into this part of the article, as I plan to study Commerce and Computer Science. I hope that the outlook on women in the technology industry and business workforce will improve for the sake of gender equality, and “social responsibility”.