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>The male/female ratio at Google is not the outcome of a neutral process; it’s a variable under Google’s control. And when you think of the male/female ratio as
by corey_moncure 9y ago
>The male/female ratio at Google is not the outcome of a neutral process; it’s a variable under Google’s control. And when you think of the male/female ratio as an input rather than an output, you can start thinking about recruitment as a quality control process and everything becomes much simpler.
Placing the male/female ratio as an input to your hiring process discriminates candidate hires based on sex, which is illegal in the United States.
- angian 9y agoIt's not a choice: demographics is always an input of the recruitment process. I agree the phrasing is unfortunate, it says "it's a variable under Google control" as Google had a target value on it, and then it says it is "an input rather than an output", which is quite a contradiction. I'd paraphrase it as: male/female output ratio is a function of male/female input ratio, and of Google hiring policies. If there were actual discrimination, the quality of (low-end, as per the article argument) male hirings is bound to be (better/worse) than the quality of low-end female hirings. Please someone correct me if I'm missing the point.