Internal guidelines as to %s wanted.
Along with background on a number of (key) employees
I'm a little confused since I can't read the original article. Is it seriously official Seattle policy that their workforce should reflect the population of the Seattle area as a whole? That seems absurd. Mandrycky (for example) is a Georgia native who spent the past few years in Minnesota, so why would the demographics of the Seattle area be relevant if they're hiring people from across the country, or even the world? Also, how do they even know? Is every interviewee required to identify their gender, sexual orientation, race etc during the interview? If someone of mixed-race applies, do they get counted in two separate categories?
It also assumes that each constituent group(however you slice up the humane race) has the exact same level of interest in a sport or activity as every other group. Based on my experience, this isn't true. For example, as a kid playing house league soccer in the GTA during the 1990's, the composition of my team every year didn't match the demographic make-up of my hometown. Everyone was either
A)The child of immigrants from a soccer-mad country
B)Catholic
And quite often both. Why did so few Canadian-born Protestants enroll their sons in soccer during the summer? Probably because their dads grew up playing baseball. If you were to start a rec cricket team in North America, you'd probably find a massive over-representation of people whose ancestors lived on the Indian subcontinent. Nothing wrong with that.
Are men underrepresented in the interior design industry?
Are women underrepresented in the waste removal industry?
Does anyone care? Or is it just for prestigious jobs?
So long as people of all groups(gender, sexual orientation, race, religion) can rise up the ranks in hockey without impediment due to their group membership, I don't really see why we should be concerned with fine-tuning the percentages.
There's also the issue of why certain groups are used for diversity stat-counting and not others. Is Seattle making efforts to ensure people who grew up in poverty are represented in their organization? That's probably the group against which hockey discriminates most and it cuts across all other groups.