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Re:#FFFFFF Diversity by wpietri on Friday October 16, 2015 @05:46AM (#10398321)
That's a good list, but I think you have left out subtle discrimination. Things like the IAT show that there's a great deal of implicit racial bias in the US. [1]

I also have never heard of a company actually having quotas. What I have heard is people gathering statistics and saying, "Hey, this looks pretty bad. What are we doing that might cause this? What can we do to fix our [generally unconscious and unnoticed] biases in our hiring processes?"

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/08/ac...

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Re:#FFFFFF Diversity by deong on Friday October 16, 2015 @07:36AM (#10398634)
You're right, I haven't heard of actual quotas either. I just got a bit loose with using the parent commenter's terminology.

I agree on the subtle and implicit bias issue as well. I wasn't trying to be exhaustive, but that's a big enough issue that it ought to be specifically mentioned.

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