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THEY are being repressed, not only their predecessors. And to "hire the most qualified person" "denies the role of personal connections, wealth, background, gen
by comrh 12y ago
THEY are being repressed, not only their predecessors. And to "hire the most qualified person" "denies the role of personal connections, wealth, background, gender, race, or education in an individual's success"[1]. It is overly simplistic to just say "hire the qualified person" when the person is qualified due to a huge amount of historical advantages. Do you really think there are so few women in tech because all the men are just more qualified?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/06/272646267/how-the-meritocracy-myth-affects-women-in-technology http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/06/272646...
- vaishaksuresh 12y agoThe right thing then would be to enable such individuals with disadvantages to become qualified. We can go on and on about how it is a vicious circle and all that, but IMHO, the remedy is not providing opportunities to less qualified people, but take measures to educate and make them competent. Relavant initiative [1] [2] [1]. https://developers.google.com/women-techmakers/ https://developers.google.com/women-techmakers/ [2]. http://www.google.com/diversity/for-the-future.html#research-around-girls-and-computer-science http://www.google.com/diversity/for-the-future.html#research...
- comrh 12y ago"the remedy is not providing opportunities to less qualified people" You keep saying this like it is a fact or that anyone is arguing for this. It is a complete fallacy.