Bill Gates Diversity Essay

Bill Gates in terms of diversity did not do well in championing this topic. When he first started out his entire team was mostly white male and mostly white male is typical in regards to big tech (Bort, 2014). Unfortunately, this trend continued throughout his tenure at Microsoft and diversity was not a big part of his company's culture. I am not sure if this was due to lack of opportunity in general that led to a small diverse workforce or if this was due to Bill Gate's own mindset. Research showing who Bill Gates now is through his foundation leaves me to be it was due to lack of opportunity. On this subject, I found an article that attacks Bill Gates on his lack of diversity with his scholarship program, interestingly enough; the author is criticizing Gates by only offering his scholarships to minorities (Lefever, 1999). The author claims that by not allowing say a poor white child to participate in trying to earn his scholarship that he is not being fully inclusive. In a way I see the authors point but when the statistics show a majority opportunity for White and Asian ethnicities in the world of tech that Gates was trying to even the playing

Although his foundation has a specific policy about diversity and inclusion it still appears that it might be spread the message but really not act on their own message. I do not think it's malicious but I do feel there is still a lot of work that needs to be done in regards Bill Gates and his diversity in his organizations. At the same time there is no question on the good and amazing opportunities he is providing people in many different countries with donating millions in education and medicine around the