Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
by BearGoesChirp on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @09:41AM
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>Do you completely reject the prescence of existing biases, conscious or unconscious, that give an advantage to males?
What the glass ceiling builds, the glass cellar destroys. Biases that exist when looking up reverse when looking down.
>swapping names on resumes, etc.
Recent study found an interesting result doing this.
>to level the playing field or not.
And thus some groups will always be looked at, internally and externally, as having the benefit of a better playing field. Perhaps that cost is worth it, but we shouldn't blame the ones pointing out the cost as if they were the source of it.
But unless you do, you should agree that the choice is not between some biased "affirmative action" and a perfectly unbiased, meritocratic alternative, because the latter does not exist. The real choice is whether we try, in some least-bad way, to level the playing field or not.