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> they implicitly discourage men to apply for job by adding "We especially encourage women to apply." to job ads, Wait, how does that implicitly discourage me
by Balgair 7y ago
> they implicitly discourage men to apply for job by adding "We especially encourage women to apply." to job ads,
Wait, how does that implicitly discourage men to apply? Sure, it is a direct encouragement to women to apply, but that is not therefore an implicit discouragement to men. An implicit discouragement to men would say something like: "We encourage women to apply above others" or "We encourage men to also look for other opportunities".
- hexadecimalMind 7y agoSo according to your logic adding to job ad such a sentence: "We especially encourage white, heterosexual men" would be completely OK? Because nothing here is "therefore an implicit discouragement to" other ethnicity/sexuality/gender.
- Balgair 7y agoYeah, if you also encouraged other types of people too. But, like, listing out all the types would be a little much. Like, women are obviously under represented in tech, despite many efforts by the Big 4 to increase representation [0]. The Big 4 are doing better at getting women into tech, but they still have a ways to go. The survey details some of those struggles. So, logically, you'd like to continue to encourage women to apply. WASPy men don't seem to need this encouragement thus far, but times may change. [0] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/07/diversity-report/ https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/07/diversity-report/
- Khaine 7y agoThen why do we need to change terminology to encourage African American's into tech? Why is master and slave unacceptable? Why is fireman unacceptable? The claim is that using this terminology makes people feel unwelcome. The same logic applies above.