[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

Part of the reason age discrimination does not get the coverage is that age discrimination disproportionately affects white males. This is due to the fact that as you go back in time in the US, white males made up a higher percent of college graduates and professionals than they do now. One side effect of this is that age discrimination likely makes your diversity numbers better.

[SolaceQuantum]

I'm really confused here, anecdotally I see age-discrimination concerns about the same rate as female-representation concerns in my engineering-related social media (HN). But I'm open to being incorrect as I'm only a human; do you have any statistical media analysis to verify the lack of coverage?

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

Google search for gender discrimination silicon valley.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gender+discrimination+silico...

Front page articles from New Yorker, Guardian, NBC Affiliate, Wharton, NY Times, Atlantic, CNN

Now with age discrimination silicon valley

https://www.google.com/search?q=age+discrimination+silicon+v...

You get Entrepreneur, Wired, Axios, The Ladders, Dice, USA Today, Market Watch, FT.

In the mainstream press, gender discrimination is focused on much more than age discrimination.

[C1sc0cat]

Age is part of diversity as well

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

I agree, but not everybody sees it like that. I have seen companies talk about how they hired more people of a specific gender or race and increased their diversity with respect to gender or race. I have never ever seen a company ever talk about how they hired more older workers and increased their diversity with respect to age.

[novaRom]

Interesting observation.

[colllectorof]

Age discrimination affects everyone. But older people tend to vote conservative, so left-leaning media has no interest in engaging with that group and right-leaning media is more interested in the "corporations are always good" meta-narrative. It's not politically opportune.