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The article goes farther, saying: "There was no evidence of discrimination against women in male-dominated professions or in mixed-gender professions, but the

The article goes farther, saying: "There was no evidence of discrimination against women in male-dominated professions or in mixed-gender professions, but the researchers did find evidence of discrimination against men in female-dominated professions." Sweden, though.

vanderZwan 5y ago
More importantly: they looked at hiring practices. That's an extremely narrow view of the problem domain.
- HarryHirsch 5y ago
  Not at all. If the employers let their pants down already at the interview stage, where everyone is at their best behaviour, it gets much worse down the line.
- BitwiseFool 5y ago
  >"they looked at hiring practices. That's an extremely narrow view of the problem domain." While true, the hiring process itself has an outsized influence on the problem domain because everything else depends on it. If you discriminate during the hiring stage you can confidently assert you aren't discriminating elsewhere by sheer merit of not having hired the kinds of people you are charged with discriminating against in the first place.
  - treeman79 5y ago
    I found out after the fact that I was reluctantly hired, only with great stress because I was a white male of unspecified sexuality. They complained several times about being forced to hire me because they were in desperate need of a qualified individual. They were in deep technical trouble from over a dozen incompetent ones with one or more the “correct” checkboxes. I cleaned up the mess they had made. Then promptly quit. Biggest bunch of bigots I ever met. Female boss was extremely sexist and made it her mission to put me in my place. Owners thought this was great.
    - catskul2 5y ago
      Which industry? (and which geographic area?)
beaunative 5y ago
I'm not surprised. Woman who behave like man are often praised, considered better. Man who behave like woman are often moked at, considered less. (I meant like man and like woman as our society expects them not as that those beliefs are justified)

vanderZwan 5y ago

More importantly: they looked at hiring practices. That's an extremely narrow view of the problem domain.

HarryHirsch 5y ago
Not at all. If the employers let their pants down already at the interview stage, where everyone is at their best behaviour, it gets much worse down the line.
BitwiseFool 5y ago
>"they looked at hiring practices. That's an extremely narrow view of the problem domain." While true, the hiring process itself has an outsized influence on the problem domain because everything else depends on it. If you discriminate during the hiring stage you can confidently assert you aren't discriminating elsewhere by sheer merit of not having hired the kinds of people you are charged with discriminating against in the first place.
- treeman79 5y ago
  I found out after the fact that I was reluctantly hired, only with great stress because I was a white male of unspecified sexuality. They complained several times about being forced to hire me because they were in desperate need of a qualified individual. They were in deep technical trouble from over a dozen incompetent ones with one or more the “correct” checkboxes. I cleaned up the mess they had made. Then promptly quit. Biggest bunch of bigots I ever met. Female boss was extremely sexist and made it her mission to put me in my place. Owners thought this was great.
  - catskul2 5y ago
    Which industry? (and which geographic area?)

beaunative 5y ago

I'm not surprised. Woman who behave like man are often praised, considered better. Man who behave like woman are often moked at, considered less. (I meant like man and like woman as our society expects them not as that those beliefs are justified)