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Sorry to say, but even though as a woman I technically benefit from things like this, this is yet another form of sexism. I want to be hired and reached out by
by sevilo 7y ago
Sorry to say, but even though as a woman I technically benefit from things like this, this is yet another form of sexism. I want to be hired and reached out by companies because they value my skills and experience, not because I lack a certain genital so their company can show off at some diversity reports.
If you want to bring your team to more balance in diversity, try letting more people with diverse backgrounds to do the interviews when hiring. This is one thing I don’t see nearly enough in companies, then they wonder why they don’t get any successful minority hires.
- p0d 7y agoI wonder how you feel about taxi firms who focus on female drivers or construction firms with female only employees? Would you also see this as sexist?
- sevilo 7y agoDepends, for taxi drivers, it's a job that directly involves customer service, and many female clients may feel more safe riding alone if the driver is female. So if that's the problem they're hoping to solve by focusing on hiring female drivers then I don't think it's sexist. But for construction and software, I don't see what this practice is trying to gain besides waving around the industry telling everyone they have diversity, when they're treating female employees as victory tokens instead of valued workers. In general I feel the whole diversity practice recently is missing a huge point of the movement in the first place -- to not discriminate, and let everyone have a fair chance based on their abilities. How it has played out has just been discrimination in a different way. When companies do shit like this, minority groups feel their credits are being disregarded, and non-minority groups feel the other side have it easy by pulling a gender or race card, then they proceed to disregard minority group's ability when they're hired. Nobody is winning. I've had more than one male friends that told me "You're a girl, you'll get hired even when you don't do so well at the interview", and who do you think are to blame?
- p0d 7y agoThanks. I like your point how some diversity practice can be counter productive. I often observe incidents were people become more polarised in the name of diversity. Back to front really.