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Explosive report reveals caste discrimination in Silicon Valley, 30 Dalit engineers call out Indian bosses -Ankita Chakravarti

-IndiaToday.in

* 30 Dalit women call out caste-based discrimination at Silicon Valley companies.

* A new report says caste biases are common among Indian Engineers working in tech companies.

* Many Dalit engineers say they face discrimination from fellow Indian engineers.  

A few weeks ago it came to light that caste-based discrimination was fairly common in the Silicon Valley companies, so common and so pervasive that it led to the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) filing a case against Cisco. Now, a new report says that Cisco is hardly the only company where some employees have alleged facing caste discrimination. It is common in Silicon Valley.

In a joint statement published by the Washington Post, 30 women Dalit engineers from Silicon Valley allege that they routinely face caste discrimination. In their letter, the women have urged the American companies to adopt caste as a protected category to eradicate caste-based discrimination in the US tech industry. The women have also hailed John Doe from Cisco for speaking out against the caste hierarchy in Silicon Valley.

“We thank John Doe from Cisco for speaking out because his experience echoes our own. As Dalit women, we have already seen both casteism and sexism during our tech education in India. Many of us have the burden of proving ourselves to our male peers, while also facing multiple casteist assumptions that we are not competent developers,” reads the statement.

It adds, “We are always having to dodge difficult caste locator questions about where we are from, what religion we practice, and whom we have married -- questions designed to place us into the caste hierarchy against our will. We also have had to weather demeaning insults to our background and accusations that we have achieved our jobs solely due to affirmative action.”

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