Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men

Re:Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men by brightball on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @10:27AM (#18024388)

You see a similar thing with real estate in equal housing. I wasn't aware of how strict the standards were for this stuff until I took the license courses last year.

If you have a real estate office and somebody walks in, you might offer them a cup of coffee. If another person walks in later and you forget to offer it to them, and that person is part of a protected class...you've just violated equal housing.

This is why a lot of real estate offices will put out drinks, snacks and coffee with a "help yourself" sign now.

Well over half of the course was basically "how not to get sued."

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Re:Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men by KingMob on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @11:06AM (#18024668)

Well, after decades of things like redlining, I'm ok with the industry trying hard not to discriminate.

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Re:Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men by brightball on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @11:10AM (#18024690)

While I agree, I was just shocked by the amount of legal stuff around realtors that basically keeps them from being able to be helpful. It has a huge effect on the perception of the profession because people are forbidden from really distinguishing themselves out of fear that a wrong word can get them sued (not just for equal housing but tons of other stuff).

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Re:Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men by shortoncash on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @11:30AM (#18024889)

I suppose we're fortunate that almost all of the information we want is on the web now. The age when it wasn't on the web was really terrible.

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