Gotta get those diversity numbers up lol
Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech
Crisps@lemmy.world 1 year agoIf companies were looking for applicants there, it is clear discrimination.
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 1 year ago
5BC2E7@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People don’t like hearing about it but I worked at one of the major sponsor of a past conference and my employer openly admitted that they wanted to increase the % of women in the company. I think that is gender discrimination but i also want more women at work so i am not personally against that.
JustZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The kind of discrimination that is a problem is unjust or prejudicial. Diversifying personnel is neither unjust nor prejudicial.
Rather, this is the good kind of discrimination, where we respect the differences between people.
5BC2E7@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I tried to keep my comment as objective as possible since I was aware that people would not like to hear it. So I made no judgement on wether it’s good or bad and actually shared how it’s a positive thing for me personally.
when you divert your focus to a specific subset of candidates you have stopped prioritizing the best candidate. therefore that candidate has been discriminated against for not having the specific traits you wanted to prioritize. from a moral perspective it seems that we are passing on chances of getting the best candidates. so this is good for my own feelings, but can’t be good for the employer.
Honestly. if I felt i was not good enough to overcome the gender discrimination I would have no qualms identifying as a woman to get the job.
psychothumbs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Companies are definitely looking for applicants there, so it would definitely be discriminatory to ban men from it. That’s why it would be illegal to ban men:
“The nonprofit says it believes allyship from men is important and noted it cannot ban men from attending due to federal nondiscrimination protections in the US.”