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If 50/50 is a goal it would be easier to start in jobs which don't require extensive field-specific knowledge for new recruits to be gainfully employable. Once

If 50/50 is a goal it would be easier to start in jobs which don't require extensive field-specific knowledge for new recruits to be gainfully employable. Once this goal is achieved there the field would be levelled for those jobs which deviate from the 50/50 target. I suggest starting with the following jobs: * garbage collectors * butchers * construction workers * loggers * fishermen * miners All these fields are heavily male-dominated. All of them are heavy jobs, some of them include challenging work environments. While many jobs need specific training, most of these fields allow beginners to gain experience on the job without having to spend a long time and a lot of money up-front. If the reaction is "but women don't want to work in those fields" I'd like to know whether this is more important than the strive for 50/50. After all, many men work in fields they're not exactly enthusiastic about. They work there because those were the jobs which where available when (and, sometimes, where) they needed one. An interesting observation can be made here: the more freedom people - man and women alike - have to choose where to work, the more the sexes differ in their choices [1]: "Regression analyses explored the power of sex, gender equality, and their interaction to predict men's and women's 106 national trait means for each of the four traits. Only sex predicted means for all four traits, and sex predicted trait means much more strongly than did gender equality or the interaction between sex and gender equality. These results suggest that biological factors may contribute to sex differences in personality and that culture plays a negligible to small role in moderating sex differences in personality.". This study is cited in the first part of the Norwegian 'Hjernevask' documentary series [2], titled 'The Gender Equality Paradox' [3]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18712468 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18712468 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask [3] http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp0tg8 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp0tg8

richmarr 9y ago
> "If 50/50 is a goal..." Stop right there. There is no "goal" other than fairness. What there is is evidence of bias in hiring processes, which is (a) unfair on individuals, and (b) reduces the productivity of companies. If you want to talk about the evidence, fine. If you want to talk about strategies for assessing candidates without bias, great. Everything else in your post is irrelevant.
- Yetanfou 9y ago
  True, there is bias in hiring processes, this is one of the main points the author of the 'manifesto' (for lack of a better word) addresses. Maybe he does not address it in ways you agree with, but address it he does.

richmarr 9y ago

> "If 50/50 is a goal..." Stop right there. There is no "goal" other than fairness. What there is is evidence of bias in hiring processes, which is (a) unfair on individuals, and (b) reduces the productivity of companies. If you want to talk about the evidence, fine. If you want to talk about strategies for assessing candidates without bias, great. Everything else in your post is irrelevant.

Yetanfou 9y ago
True, there is bias in hiring processes, this is one of the main points the author of the 'manifesto' (for lack of a better word) addresses. Maybe he does not address it in ways you agree with, but address it he does.