Are gender quotas good for business?

Re:Are gender quotas good for business? by ChrisSD on Monday September 03, 2018 @07:24AM (#17901910)

With respect, I think what you just wrote is statistical nonsense. If your ultimate selection from a pool is heavily biased towards an irrelevant fact (gender) then countering that bias can lead to a better selection.

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Re:Are gender quotas good for business? by m1el on Monday September 03, 2018 @07:27AM (#17901928)

A better solution would be to do gender-blind hiring, not gender quotas.

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Re:Are gender quotas good for business? by ChrisSD on Monday September 03, 2018 @07:42AM (#17901989)

I was only responding to the suggestion that quotas are "mathematical nonsence". I don't know if they are the best solution or not.

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Re:Are gender quotas good for business? by kraigie on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @04:59AM (#17907617)

This would also account for transgender and intersex individuals too.

Why shouldn't the right person be hired just because they have both sets of genitalia? How does that fit in to the quota system?

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Re:Are gender quotas good for business? by AnIdiot on Monday September 03, 2018 @07:45AM (#17902003)

That's true. But consider that in some majors such as software engineering there are 5 times as many men as women. If you try to hire women, your pool will be so much smaller you'll almost certainly choose worse candidates.

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