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Why focusing on hiring? The comment you're answering to is talking about harassment and gatekeeping. Hiring is one gate, but if you're hired just to reach gen
by wiether 5y ago
Why focusing on hiring?
The comment you're answering to is talking about harassment and gatekeeping.
Hiring is one gate, but if you're hired just to reach gender goals or to satisfy the lust of your new manager, you will not have the same experience at the company than someone from the other gender. Like getting raises or being promoted.
Things are complicated.
- Manuel_D 5y agoHow do we quantify "discrimination and gatekeeping"? Focusing on hiring makes sense because it's the gate that you need to pass through to join the company. It's by far the most important form of gatekeeping, and the one with the most influence over the representation of the company. It's also where I see the most focus on attempting to "fix" the imbalance, but introducing policies to favor underrepresented groups. I've worked at multiple companies with overt affirmative action programs in favor of women. Other factors like harassment are important, but again the evidence doesn't seem to suggest it's responsible for gender imbalances. Engineering has one of the lower rates of harassment among professional industries (32%) less than plenty of industries with more balanced gender representation like healthcare (35%) and media (41%) [1]. And this is just among white-collar industries, service industries and blue collar industries are by far even worse [2]. 1. https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/media-industry-sexual-harassment-survey-1202884052/ https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/media-industry-sexual-hara... 2. https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/11/21/16685942/sexual-harassment-industry-service-retail https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/11/21/16685942/sexual-ha...