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I never said these were the only reasons, and I didn't mention race at all. @geofft was wondering whether the "intrinsic" differences were due to biology or so
by pygy_ 11y ago
I never said these were the only reasons, and I didn't mention race at all.
@geofft was wondering whether the "intrinsic" differences were due to biology or social conditioning. The answer is: both.
Of course there are extrinsic factors as well.
"Politics" implies a deliberate, concerted behavior, which may exist, but this kind of bias is often subconscious, and present regardless of the gender/race of the evaluator.
- geofft 11y agoA minor point but maybe an important one: I wasn't actually wondering, because it doesn't matter, I think. There's enough reason to believe that this phenomenon exists, in aggregate, between most men and most women. There's been no explanation for it offered that holds that the effects are just (e.g., something that claims that men's work output is correspondingly greater, or their need for income is). So whether it is nature or nurture, unless we think Google can fix the root cause, the right thing for Google to do is accept that the phenomenon exists and work around it. They don't need to track the phenomenon down. It's like how Google focuses heavily on technical interviews over college GPA or even college degree. They've found that having a degree and a good GPA is not well-correlated with what they're hiring people to do. They could put a bunch of work into fixing the college system, but instead they design their hiring process to take it into account as little as possible.