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Female academic applications are going to the top of the pile
- bloak 7y agoThe article says something about the legality of this, in the second-to-last paragraph. I'd be interested to know whether the laws of other EU countries would allow this kind of "positive action", as I believe it's called. It sounds to me as if it what they're doing would be illegal in England, where, as I understand it, you are allowed to encourage members of an underrepresented group to apply, but if you employ one of them instead of a better-qualified candidate then you have broken the law.