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Doesn't this seem a little sexist? I only hope they give men the equal opportunity to women and don't start "paving the way" to make it easier for women to get
by Ellipsis753 14y ago
Doesn't this seem a little sexist?
I only hope they give men the equal opportunity to women and don't start "paving the way" to make it easier for women to get a job there than an equally good man. Avoiding sexism isn't about hiring an equal number of men as women. It's about hiring the best for the job regardless of their gender.
- jt2190 14y ago> Doesn't this seem a little sexist? Had the article been: "How Etsy Replaced 50% of our Male Engineers with Females" you might have cause for concern. If we were using startup lingo, we'd be saying that Etsy is disrupting the traditional labor market by finding a supply of software engineers where one didn't (or didn't seem to) exist before. We wouldn't assume that the labor supply remained exactly the same size, and that every software engineer position staffed by a woman meant one less software engineer position staffed by a man.
- lifebar 14y ago>Had the article been: "How Etsy Replaced 50% of our Male Engineers with Females" you might have cause for concern. But it's basically same. If they were hiring blindly (not in sexist/discriminatory way) they would have most likely would have hired few men in process. So basically they replaced few would be male employees with women (because according feminism word 'female' is offensive.)
- Ellipsis753 14y agoIt's not whether they're getting rid of male engineers. I just hope they're not giving an unfair advantage to females over males here as I would consider that to be sexist. Equality isn't making sure 50% of workers in each role are of each gender. Equality is making sure that when recruiting/training you always pick the best candidate regardless of there gender.