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Height, weight, current salary? Were these things you commonly kept on your resume in the 1970s? I honestly can’t imagine listing any of that today.
by donatj 7y ago
Height, weight, current salary? Were these things you commonly kept on your resume in the 1970s?
I honestly can’t imagine listing any of that today.
- jsjohnst 7y agoMarital status too...
- TomMckenny 7y agoBack then they were quite overtly discriminatory about marriage status, gender, having children or not, disabilities, age, divorce. Indeed, apartment buildings often refused to rent to families with children. In the 70's, people speaking against race discrimination were viewed as center left but people decrying discrimination on these other grounds were considered far left. Even on otherwise "progressive" period TV shows, these positions would be satirized (eg the characters played by Beatrice Arthur and Rob Reiner were satires much of the time. The Mary Tyler Moore character was originally written as a divorcee) And though legislation had recently curtailed ethnicity and religion from being _publicly_ discriminated, it was still seen as ok to discriminate for public facing positions: Connie Chung's position as news reader was considered definite proof of media liberal bias. Indeed, advocating equality for public facing positions or for persons with disabilities was viewed as completely unrealistic.
- cronix 7y agoNow it's personal pronouns and gender. Seeing more and more on resumes. I didn't ask if you were "genderqueer", don't care and it has nothing to do with our open front end dev position.
- nudiustertian 7y agoThe point is that thats what the candidate is requesting to used in conversation and when referring to that candidate. It's a courtesy thing
- i80and 7y agoListing their pronouns prevents candidates from being misgendered while hiring staff discuss them. Makes sense to me.
- yholio 7y agoImagine trying to create a pronouns dopdown into some employer form. You either fix the list, and inevitably be accused of lack of gender sensitivity when a new pronoun starts to be used; or leave it free form, and run the risk of some candidates entering "their magnificence, Klingon commander" as their preferred pronoun.
- beisner 7y agoI don’t see a problem with that
- objectivetruth 7y agoWhat exactly is the risk in the second case? That people can choose how to identify themselves? If prospective employees are filling out the form, that's up to them to take it seriously or not.
- par 7y agowow you sound pretty aggressive about something that is quite innocuous.
- cronix 7y agoI was stating an observation about things people (voluntarily) currently put on resumes (not applications where things have actual questions/predetermined choices) that don't have anything to do with the job. To us, gender is irrelevant in terms of a job, just like height/weight/previous salary, which is what I was responding to. You seem to have a very loose definition of aggressive.