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The idea of publicizing more role models seems fine, but Pike crossed a line here: > It may take proactive behavior, like choosing a women over a man when grow
by chroma 10y ago
The idea of publicizing more role models seems fine, but Pike crossed a line here:
> It may take proactive behavior, like choosing a women over a man when growing your team, just because, or promoting women more freely.
Doing this would violate the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits hiring discrimination based on, "race, color, religion, sex, or national origin".[1] I'm also sure such a practice would be extremely counterproductive.
1. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000e-2 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000e-2
- justin66 10y agoHiring to correct a disparity in the proportion of men vs women on a team, to make it somewhat less ridiculously uneven in its tilt toward men, would be quite easy to defend in court. I'd be interested in knowing if any court cases of "zomg reverse discrimination" have ever been won by white dudes under those circumstances.
- zigzigzag 10y agoEither the courts would apply the law and Pike/Google would receive the punishment, or they wouldn't and the clear written intent of the law would have been subverted. If Congress wanted to systematically disadvantage men in favour of women they should have called it the "Female Rights Act". With respect to your question the answer is yes, such cases have been won, like this one: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/men-rights-unruh-act-women-discrimination http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/men-rights-unruh...
- justin66 10y agoI'm looking at the article, and the material: 1) Doesn't involve the Civil Rights Act 2) Doesn't involve hiring at all 3) Involves settlements rather than court wins I strongly suspect that you don't like quotas, or intentional correction of a massive gender disparity in hiring, and so on, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong about the limits of the Civil Rights Act with regards to hiring. Hiring more women after realizing "we have a huge gender disparity problem" seems to me (not a lawyer) the sort of thing a company's employment lawyers would be happy to defend in court. If there are any real counterexamples, yeah, that'd be interesting to read about.