The best I can do is give a personal account of my thoughts as I read both articles: Reading the techyville article: * Honestly never heard of the site before

The best I can do is give a personal account of my thoughts as I read both articles: Reading the techyville article: * Honestly never heard of the site before, not terribly pleasing to the eye but oh well. * Ok, hit in the face with a "racism is bad" quote. * This person is applying for jobs in the insurance industry, which I'm not part of - hope this is interesting. * Gah - monster.com? How old is this article? * Ok - so she also changed her name to "Bianca White" - what was her original name? Yolanda Spivey? Ah. My take away from the article: monster.com (a site I do not recommend using for jobs) appears to mandate you answer a question regarding your race. This woman submitted two different profiles to the site, with different choices for race in each - and her actual name also appears to be stereotypically associated with the black community. In the end, she got many more responses from her profile that did not indicate she was black. My gut reaction to this was that a.) monster.com allowing you to see the candidate's race choice is a bad thing (yet another reason not to use the site) and b.) the insurance industry appears to suck, glad I don't work in it. Reading the quartz article: * Wow, another quartz article? This site is really heavily submitted (along with medium.com) as of late. Oh well, at least it's pleasing to look at. * Wow, they quit their job? I wish I had that confidence. They must be single. * Supply and sales experience - and engineering too? Wonder what job field this is. Sounds somewhat interesting. * "Mr. Kim" sounds awkward to me. * "example everyone used to show that it could be done" - what kind of field does this guy work in where they routinely have to tout that women working in it is a definite possibility? I don't think I've ever had a discussion like that with my peers. My take away from the article: Not really sure how I feel about it. The article seemed to have a lot less specific details ("engineering" could be any number of industries) and didn't seem to focus on a single method for applying for jobs (no mention of a single website used, etc.). Looking back on the two articles - honestly, I just had a more fulfilling experience reading the one at quartz.com. The whole website experience was more pleasant, the story did not immediately put me on the defensive by providing a quote telling me about the depravities of humanity at the beginning, and the story seemed to have at least a little bearing on my interests and possibly fields of work related to my own. I understand that injustice happened in both articles. I just didn't feel any connection to the techyville content. The most I came away with it was "It sounds like monster.com is poorly built and allows hiring companies to filter based on race - and it's happening as a result". I don't feel that I made a preference based on racism vs. gender discrimination and somehow classed one inexcusable thought process as less harmful than another. The presentation of the two articles just really hit me differently. I think there's just too many variables here to easily say that the techyville doesn't do as well because racism is tolerated more. Maybe someone will have to do some A/B testing.