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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by beat on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @04:46PM (#18188718)
Sexism kept women out of medicine and law for centuries. It's only very recently that this has changed. Women were not even admitted to Harvard Law School until 1950.

I do think there's a universal component, though, as sexism is seen across virtually all cultures.

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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by naasking on Thursday October 11, 2018 @05:47PM (#18197275)
> Sexism kept women out of medicine and law for centuries. It's only very recently that this has changed. Women were not even admitted to Harvard Law School until 1950.

You're equivocating. You know very well that the type of sexism that kept women from working in virtually all professions, including law and medicine, is not the type of sexism we're discussing now.

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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by camelite on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:28AM (#18192278)
> Sexism kept women out of medicine and law for centuries.

Have you noticed how this is inconsistent with your prestige argument?

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