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In truth, your real issue is you don't value an integrated workplace. Once you decide that it is a top priority to have a diverse workforce, you will find ways
by spopejoy 10y ago
In truth, your real issue is you don't value an integrated workplace. Once you decide that it is a top priority to have a diverse workforce, you will find ways to attract, grow, and retain diverse talent.
You clearly have not decided this is important to you, which is your choice. However, because you choose not to pursue it, you are now concluding that you are entirely blameless for your objectively abysmal performance in hiring women. That is not a valid conclusion.
My experience is that once I chose to prioritize hiring women, a bunch of my own hidden biases, assumptions and yes, values, became clear. I realized that I had missed opportunities to hire women in the past. I realized that I had connected values I shared with people I hired as objectively "good" when in fact they just matched mine. I have a high opinion of my skills, so it's perhaps natural that I would do so, but in the end it actively hurt my abilities to recruit a diverse workforce. It was actually quite painful to realize I was the reason for not hiring women in many cases.
The other thing to realize is women, like all humans, have their own biases, and instinctively suss out those organizations that are seriously hiring women, and avoid those that don't. So until you decide that you want to recruit women, and succeed in doing so, you will continue to have a terrible record for hiring women.
- msimpson 10y ago> Your real issue is you don't value an integrated workplace ... > You decide that it is a top priority to have a diverse workforce ... > You will find ways to attract, grow, and retain diverse talent ... > You clearly have not decided this is important to you ... > You choose not to pursue it ... > You are now concluding that you are entirely blameless ... > I chose to prioritize hiring women ... > I realized that I had missed opportunities ... > I realized that I had connected values I shared with people I hired as objectively "good" ... > I have a high opinion of my skills ... > I was the reason for not hiring women ... In truth, your real issue is that you project your own failures in an amazingly presumptuous manner. Whereas I merely left a comment detailing my factual observations regarding hiring for a specific type of position advertised equally to both men and women on services like LinkedIn and Craigslist.