> However, correcting a biased system requires that there is a period with enforced change bias to correct the existing bias. I guess all my calculus and syste

> However, correcting a biased system requires that there is a period with enforced change bias to correct the existing bias. I guess all my calculus and systems theory textbooks were wrong, then. Seriously, though, there are myriad problems with this premise: a) It implicitly assumes that the system itself is biased instead of its inputs. b) It assumes that the system isn't already being corrected based on the first- or second-derivative on the inputs. c) Feedback loops (enforced change bias) can result in nasty exponential on oscillational responses. And in the context of the code itself: d) The code assumes the problem is systemic across all public departments and thus must apply to all of them; e) The code makes suitability to position (which is the point of hiring a professor) secondary to considerations irrelevant to the position. (Plain English: given two candidates, an old, experienced, non-racist white guy who tries to each and encourage all of his students vs. any candidate of one of the protected classes whose biases run toward their protected class, you must hire the biased candidate. And you can't tell if they are biased because the current environment enables that candidate to continue their bias in the current environment, which is to attempt to lift up those protected classes at any cost - if they exclude other protected classes or "white guys" it won't show up as a negative on the demographic statistics assembled.) I agree there is a discrimination problem with certain people, but I don't think the solution is ever going to come from legislation like this. I think the solution has to be grass-roots and be done by gradually retiring out those with generational unconscious bias or by firing those that are outright discriminatory, and by gradually hiring in a younger generation that is (hopefully) less discriminatory. That's a lot more work than making a half-assed law and winning votes because of that law, though.