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I think that you should be hiring whoever is qualified, not based on gender/ethnicity/etc. If you have many people then you will have diversity, because they a
by zzo38computer 8y ago
I think that you should be hiring whoever is qualified, not based on gender/ethnicity/etc.
If you have many people then you will have diversity, because they are different people and therefore they have all different experience and ideas from each other. They should neither to try to only to hire people of same gender nor to try to hire everyone all difference gender/skins (doing so can be relevant to a movie set perhaps, but not for a computer programming job).
If women are less interested or less capable for this job by average (although I do not actually know whether or not this is true) then by your interviewing to see who is qualify then you can hire someone, by statistics it is likely that less women will be hired and that is not your fault and is not your problem. But you should not try to hire less women, nor more; see if they are competent at the job rather than their gender.
- DanBC 8y agoIt's interesting that you assume that white men are i) capable of doing the job ii) interested in doing the job and iii) are the best candidates for the job, while women and POC are probably i) less capable ii) less interested and iii) not the best candidates. But you're oblivious to your bias.
- zzo38computer 8y agoI do not assume that; I only mention it as hypothetically the case, and then try to say that whether or not it is true on average (I think it probably isn't), it doesn't matter anyways due to the reasons I specified, because you should not hire someone based on their gender or skin (except perhaps if you are hiring a actor; but, if you are hiring a computer programming then it doesn't matter your gender/skin). (Sorry if I was being unclear.)
- faissaloo 8y agoIt's more so a case of the law of averages, white people are the majority of people in these countries after all.
- YUMad 8y agoIt's interesting that you assume he assumes exactly the things which conveniently let you do 'check your bias' dance.
- screye 8y agoYes, equality of opportunity should be valued over equality of outcome. I have seen some absolutely egregious cases of trying to keep a minority in an underrepresented field, that have lead to everyone losing in the long term and further resentment towards minorities from even the most ardent supporters of affirmative action.