NASA pretended to have a focus on reaching underserved communities, and the moment they got the go ahead to stop they did. Remember the now deleted OIG report reviewing 10 years of data during DEI efforts that showed the needle never moved in terms of actual representation across NASA centers? They sure liked to put us in social media videos and brochures but not actually update their hiring approach. The same people that were pressured to represent underserved communities over and over felt degraded because they were hired based on skill, not skin color. But no way anyone could speak up about that.
NASA culture had a particular way of making us feel guilty for not “representing”, ignoring our actual suggestions for increasing diversity and quality of engineers, and turning their backs on us if we balked at their “strategy”. As someone who sat around a table of white men for 15 years, nothing changed for the bulk employees. Oh except that we were openly called emotional or difficult or high maintenance when we disagreed in a meeting during risk assessments…sorry we were SMEs and our jobs were to assess risks critically. Everyone sitting around a table acting like that was ok to call a woman emotional. NASA was never diverse but sure liked getting credit for pretending when it was convenient.
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