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I'm a man, I can't claim to have experienced the first example specifically, but I've faced no shortage of stereotypical assumptions about my role and abilities
by incision 14y ago
I'm a man, I can't claim to have experienced the first example specifically, but I've faced no shortage of stereotypical assumptions about my role and abilities. I've experienced the second two examples more times than I can count.
In place of gender, I could easily chalk most of these things up to ethnic discrimination and be done with it, but that would be doing myself a huge disservice.
Likewise, I think the author is doing herself a disservice by seemingly looking for bias as a first and only explanation in each case.
It's exactly this kind of hasty generalizing [1] that is surely the root of much discrimination.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasty_generalization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasty_generalization
- ameister14 14y agoI've never performed interviews, but I've definitely experienced the latter two examples many times. Perhaps it's more common because of gender, but it's certainly not the only factor, or even the most important. It IS the most fixable, though; if it's a factor.
- brudgers 14y agoThe above comment questions Rachel's expertise and judgment in regard to her own experience on the basis of the commenter being a man.