Re:Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men
by flooq on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @08:06PM
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It's definitely illegal to discriminate on those grounds in the UK (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/equality-act-2010-guidance).
There are exceptions like modelling or acting where roles where there could be reasonable reasons for being gender-specific but not for the tech and public sector jobs described in the article.
Given the way issues like this overlap with the European Convention on Human Rights I would expect it to be very similar across Europe (certainly within the EU).
There was even a case recently where a man won a lawsuit because he was excluded by a clothing store that was searching for a female employee for doing an inventory job.
"Brussels, 23 August 2018 - The legal action taken by the Institute for Equality of Women and Men reminds employers that sex is not a criterion for refusing an application. The Leuven Labor Court has sentenced a clothing store to discrimination based on sex. He refused a man's candidacy because he wanted to hire a woman."
https://presscenter.org/nl/pressrelease/20180822/een-sollici... (dutch) https://presscenter.org/nl/pressrelease/20180822/een-sollici... (french)
That being said I also seen adverts asking for women but technically it's against the law and even with all those laws discriminations happen more often than not.