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So I don't think that hiding factors that (we think might) influence biased people is the right way to address bias. Let's say a woman uses this voice modulato
by onetwotree 10y ago
So I don't think that hiding factors that (we think might) influence biased people is the right way to address bias.
Let's say a woman uses this voice modulator in an interview and gets a job that she wouldn't have otherwise. Now she's going to work in the same shitty, sexist environment that would have denied her the job had they known she was a woman. What problem have we actually solved here?
I think that the problem isn't so much that women can't get jobs in tech as that they don't want to work in an industry that is (correctly or not) perceived as being a sexist sausagefest.
We have to change attitudes and culture to address bias, not simply put on blindfolds.