If they need a new president or ceo they should hire the most qualified candidate and not play identity politics.
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Why does it matter?
I’m not convinced that that would make a difference.
I don’t think the sex/gender of an individual is particularly important or relevant. What matters more is their character.
…CEOs have a tendency to lack decent character.
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Off the top of my head the lead narrative designer, lead cinematic writer, and at least one of the art leads are women. I’m not going to comb through every senior position and I’m sure it’s not a lot given the ~20% figure the state provided, but it’s not as if there aren’t any at all.
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Being a dbag isn’t based on gender, it’s based on your morals as a human being.
Why do I think it matters that you don’t think a woman could be actually hired for the position on merit?
We are either having different discussions or you are trolling me.
Yeah, I know nothing about their leadership, so I just put that there so nobody would say, “Why don’t you want women in leadership.”
I think demanding that any particular role be filled by a particular demographic is…not the best way to get the best qualified person. That said, if you don’t see ANY diversity in the leadership of a large organization, it’s kind of an eyebrow lifter.
Mostly Men Online Roleplaying as Girls. Nope, never saw this coming
Ion is a middle-level manager. He isn’t even the top guy developing World of Warcraft. He is the game director. Game producers and game executive producers are above him in the hierarchy.
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Blizz needs to hire the best person for the job. Man, woman, black, white, green, whatever. How is ‘we need x amount of workers of this type and that type’ helping anything? The goal should be not caring about someone’s sex, gender, color, creed. Not hiring people because of it. That is not progress.
Why do you think it matters if a woman is hired when the position is based on skill and merit?
Because in a “all things being equal” scenario, it’s time for women to have leadership opportunities. We are FAR under-represented in many industries.
This. Qualifications should matter. Not various minority boxes to check off.
You should look up “The Rooney Rule” in the NFL. It’s insulting and degrading to only be considered because you’re the diversity mandate.
A female president does not mean that things will automatically get better, as shown by the statements coming out of the office of Fran Townsend, who literally runs the AVB Women’s Network.
What Blizzard needs, are people who respect women in leadership positions. Whether they’re women or not doesn’t really matter, as long as that respect is there and they foster a workplace that doesn’t tolerate any abuse on any level.
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Then maybe they should start entering them in the first place.
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But in this scenario is the woman the best person for the job due to their impressive resume in similar positions or is it simply because she’s a woman and you believe representations matter more than skill for the job?
One is alright, the other sets back opportunities for all minorities when the purpose is to meet a diversity quota which in turn would simply make things worse because better people for the job got passed up for not having the correct sex organs or skin color.
Ah so trolling. Got it. I took you seriously for a minute.
Perhaps take a look here and see the Director is a woman:
activisionblizzard dot com/board-of-directors
Which scenario? The all things being equal scenario?