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To: Professor Swartz

Fr: Desiree Cabalbag

Subject: Ex’pression College

Date: 6/4/2015

Ex’pression College is a college that focuses in media arts. They have two campuses in the Bay Area, Emeryville and San Jose. The Emeryville campus is managed on a hierarchical structure and the San Jose Campus on a vertical structure. We will be focusing on the management practices of the San Jose location since they are in the process of a transition within the management team. The Campus Director is Bridget Gardiner and being that the San Jose Campus is small, as of right now it seems feasible having one person be in charge. I come from the administrative side of things, the financing. Since I deal with the students throughout their time in the college, I’ve worked with both the educational and administrative side.

Coming from sales and now working at a for-profit college, I’ve learned that when it comes to any business regardless of the circumstances, the priority will always be the bottom line. After reading Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” and catching up with the “Pao Case”, it only validates that regardless of the circumstances, stereotyping and discriminating will always be unavoidable, it will only matter the degree. Pao’s case not only brings up the issues of gender discrimination, but also the issue of race. Living in Silicon Valley, Pao’s case stirred issues that most thought did not exist here.

To: Professor Swartz

Fr: Desiree Cabalbag

Subject: Inequality in the workplace

Date: 6/4/2015

As you know, the Bay Area is known as one of the largest melting pots in the United States. According to the US Census, the population in the Bay Area is broken down at 42.4% White, 23.5% Hispanic and Latino , 23% Asian, 6.5% Black or African American, 3.5% two or more races, and 1.2% other. Population of male to female is males 49% and female 51%. With the numbers practically speaking for themselves, the Bay Area would be the last place you could possibly think of having issues related to discrimination, stereotyping or even sexism. The men are outnumbered here by 1%. Some employees are now bringing issues with favoritism. Others are claiming that they are not being favored, but it’s just that specific needs are being facilitated. Therefore, we want to address the surfacing issues of favoritism and whether or not we should address them openly.

What is considered favoritism? The dictionary defines favoritism as “the practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another”. Give that power of “favoritism” to a governing body and one would interpret that as discrimination. Unfortunately, I had an experience myself dealing with a manager (Sheri) who felt I would be hard for me to focus on training because I had a daughter. With me being a mother she felt that I would not be able to handle the training paired up with a recent college graduate who was single and had no responsibilities. At that time she made me feel guilty for being a mom and trying to go through management training. She favored the other guy and I felt like Pao when her very own colleague made the remark “Women kill the buzz”.