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Google Sex Discrimination

No, no. My title is neither an instruction nor a request to google ?sex discrimination.? But if you did you should, but won?t, find what I am in fact referring to, which is this report in the Chronicle of Higher Education about Google?s own sex discrimination, which of course was not described as sex discrimination in either the Chronicle report or Google?s announcement of its sex-restricted scholarship program:

The U.S. program awards $10,000 academic scholarships to 23 outstanding female leaders in technology, and $1,000 scholarships to 32 finalists. In Canada, 4 women will receive $5,000 scholarship awards, and 13 finalists will receive $1,000 scholarships. These undergraduate and graduate women are completing degrees in computer science and related fields. Each of these award recipients has demonstrated a commitment to advancing women in technology. We congratulate these leaders on their accomplishments.

Note that these scholarships are not only limited to women but specifically to women of a certain viewpoint, those who have ?demonstrated a commitment to advancing women in technology.? Not only need no men apply, but neither should those women whose commitment is to advancing everyone of talent, or the poor of both sexes.

As a private company Google may well be allowed to engage in this sort of sex discrimination, but for us Bob Jones fans (see here, here, and here) it would be interesting to know whether any tax exempt funds are engaged in subsidizing it.

Full post as published by Discriminations on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).