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If your company is discriminating, it's not getting the best applicant for the job, it's getting the best young male for the job. That is missing out on at le
by lsiebert 13y ago
If your company is discriminating, it's not getting the best applicant for the job, it's getting the best young male for the job. That is missing out on at least 60% of applicants. That should be all the reason any intelligent person needs to be concerned about these factors. It is hard to hire good people. Also the pool of individuals discriminated against by other employers is perhaps more likely to contain qualified people who have not been hired.
- lmm 13y agoWhy should I be concerned? I like working with talented people, but my experience has been that those employers that employ gender-balanced workforce employ a lower proportion of highly talented people than those that do not. And if we're speaking solely about self-interest then as a male such discrimination works in my favour. So no, that's not "all the reason any intelligent person needs", you have to give an actual reason.
- whiterabbit2 13y agoIt depends on the definition of "talented". If "me myself and everybody like me" then it's very logical.
- claudius 13y agoIf you need someone with qualification X, and n%, n != 50, of students attending university to earn qualification X are of gender A, yet you try to employ genders A and B equally, you will get fewer good people with qualification X than if you employed n% people of gender A and (100-n)% people of gender B. Since there are very, very few subjects attended equally by both genders, employing equally will get you worse people. Note that the above actually assumes that people from both genders are in general equally capable/intelligent. If you add, for example, a higher standard deviation of the IQ for gender C, you will get even more skewed results.