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It's a good point. Does it go both ways? What if Sarah spoke at a women's only conference. At this conference, it's not just a "bias" towards women speakers,

• bumby 6y ago
  >assuming all of Sarah's prior talks were thanks to a fair selection process That scenario might negate the above assumption, depending on how you view "women's only" conferences
• milesskorpen 6y ago
  Sure, goes both ways. But at scale would reflect systemic biases (which broadly lean to white men in many fields).
  • lopmotr 6y ago
    Do they actually anymore? Aren't many male and white dominated organizations actively trying to be biased the other way? When I studied engineering, my university had a "women in engineering" club which did a recruitment evening and I went along. When I talked to an employer, they told me "this is really for women, you should go to the general one instead". From what I understand, that kind of bias is widespread in America too. Where is this male and white preference happening? I know many fields are dominated by white men but that fact alone doesn't show that it's because of systemic bias. Wasn't that stuff mostly stopped in the 1960's which is before anyone working today got started? Just the other day there was a story on HN about an AI fighter pilot beating a real pilot in a simulation. But the company that did it was given special priority for government work because it was owned by a black person! A white owned company doing the same thing might not have got that contract.