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It's entirely possible that the women just hustled harder, thus explaining while all the qualified ones were hired. The problem is with the one who failed the
by cgriswald 10y ago
It's entirely possible that the women just hustled harder, thus explaining while all the qualified ones were hired.
The problem is with the one who failed the class. What do we know about her? We know that she either was too lazy to pass the class--implying she doesn't hustle--or she is simply unable to pass the class, implying she isn't qualified.
Combine this with the current political climate, in which a company looks like its trying to solve problems if it employs more women; and the fact that women joining male-dominated fields tends to cause a reduction in wages in those fields, and the fact that this seemingly unqualified and/or non-hustling woman was hired while many men were not, and its suggestive of a gender bias.
That is not to say the other women who were hired aren't qualified or don't deserve those jobs. Merely that there may exist a gender bias which is problematic in that it is focusing a particular outcome (equality of gender) at the expense of economic sense and efficiency; not to mention the personal expense of the qualified men and also at the expense of the unqualified woman who, if such a bias exists, is really being exploited.
- Kluny 10y agoIt's also possible that she had qualifications in the industry she was hired for besides web design. It's not suggestive of bias at all - it simply tells us that there's something about the candidates that we don't know.
- cgriswald 10y agoAnything is possible, but gender bias seems a much likelier conclusion than that she was hired as a dev because she has skills other than dev.