Big Oil's Generosity and the Cloak of Social Responsibility
U.S.
supermajor Exxon Mobil said it invited 50 school girls to its
headquarters in Texas for its 9th annual program meant to encourage more
women to pursue engineering. The company said that while women make up
about half of the U.S. workforce, only around 14 percent of those jobs
were in the field of engineering. The program, Exxon explained, was part
of a multi-million dollar effort launched through its philanthropic
arm, the Exxon Mobil Foundation. The initiative, Exxon officials
explain, is meant to show school girls that engineering was…Read more...
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