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Depends on the country because there is massive variation on this in Europe. For example, not every country sees diversity as a positive, some are not that dive

Depends on the country because there is massive variation on this in Europe. For example, not every country sees diversity as a positive, some are not that diverse at all or may be diverse in different ways to USA. It’s probably a bigger thing in the UK but that has much more cultural influence from the USA than the EU would.

kypro 5y ago
> It’s probably a bigger thing in the UK but that has much more cultural influence from the USA than the EU would. It's definitely a very common thing here in the UK, although perhaps it's quite regional. I know every job I've had in the past ~5 years I've been involved in conservations about whether we should hire someone based on their race / gender, but I do work in the London / South West area and people tend to be quite "progressive" politically here. That said, in the UK this seems to be something that occurs far more often in the public sector. Over the last few years contracting in both the public and private sector I've found diversity training and diversity hiring to basically be the norm for public companies. In many cases the diversity hiring in public companies will even go so far as to explicitly exclude certain candidates based on their race / gender. In the private sector I've found it tends to be more subtle, a position might be opened up for anyone to apply on paper, but conversations around hiring a candidate based on some immutable characteristic will naturally arise. My guess is that private companies don't want to deal with the backlash which can occur from partaking in explicit acts of discrimination and tend not to set explicit racial / gender quotas like public companies do.