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Re:We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical int... by Sephr on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @03:56PM (#12004329)
Affirmative action is not only legal, it's required in academia if a university wants federal funding. I'm not sure if minority genderbased- affirmative action is required, but minority race is definitely a requirement.
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Re:We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical int... by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @04:19PM (#12004496)
> Affirmative action is not only legal, it's required in academia if a university wants federal funding.

Yes, but what many people stereotype "affirmative action" as being, or at least including -- notably, including the upthread suggestion characterized as "let's just hire only women for a while to balance out the numbers" -- is not only not required even in that context, it is quite illegal (and would be equally illegal if, say, "blacks" replaced "women" in the description.)

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