Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
by bduerst on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @06:19PM
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Your hypothetical is self-fulfilling.
Imagine that if you're a minority, you have nearly a 0% chance of getting hired if you're the only minority in the hiring pool [1]. As an employer, wouldn't you want to counteract that by making sure that the decision to hire/not-hire isn't affected by status-quo bias, so you don't overlook qualified candidates?
Imagine that if you're a minority, you have nearly a 0% chance of getting hired if you're the only minority in the hiring pool [1]. As an employer, wouldn't you want to counteract that by making sure that the decision to hire/not-hire isn't affected by status-quo bias, so you don't overlook qualified candidates?
https://hbr.org/2016/04/if-theres-only-one-woman-in-your-can...