Tech job internships are explicitly excluding candidates by race and gender.
Some examples:
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The Oracle Developer Scholars Program is a Paid 2020 Summer Internship. ELIGIBILITY: African Americans, Latino, Native Americans, and/or women." https://uncf.org/the-latest/oracle-developer-scholars-program-application-is-live
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Facebook University is "a hands-on immersive internship that enables students from underrepresented communities..."
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Google STEP is an "internship program [that] has a focus of providing development opportunities to students from groups historically underrepresented in tech." https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/programs/step/
The Civil Rights Act appears to forbid this:
"It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer - (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin"
Now, my understanding is that diversity programs are legal as far we are offering training for students in some unpaid capacity (like helping to teach high-school students in poor neighborhoods how to code). But it seems illegal to be offering full-blown paid internships that discriminate on gender or race. My suspicion is that these internships somehow skirt around the Civil Rights law by calling themselves "programs," or perhaps somehow the employment laws don't apply to internships...? Or did the diversity movement get ahead of itself?
How is this legal, or is it?
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