Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers from Seeing Job Ads

Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by raxxorrax on Monday September 30, 2019 @06:35AM (#21113532)

Women don't study IT because they dislike the grooming habits of their peers? And that is the fault of those icky nerds themselves? Because their hair is evidence of sexism?

This is hilarious. I don't know if it is more insulting to nerds or to women, but I somehow like it.

Seriously, I don't even know how to begin here...

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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by pdub123 on Monday September 30, 2019 @10:25AM (#21115645)

It's simply propaganda.

It's the concept that women have no agency. That other people are responsible for the choices of individual women.

Check out my other post on this thread-- I show three different investigations into the reality:

Regarding occupational interests:

Men prefer working with things, women prefer working with people

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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by hutzlibu on Monday September 30, 2019 @02:45PM (#21118442)

People only read, what they want to read it seems. Nothing new.

But if you want it explained, well above I just said, that many (not all!) IT nerds still fullfill the stereotype in my experience.

And the stereotype is unwashed nerds, who have never been close to a women in a way they wanted, but they want to, but don't know how. So they behave weird with women around.

That makes women uncomfortable and avoiding the scene. Not long hair.

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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by raxxorrax on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @03:59AM (#21123053)

If they cannot accept shy and awkward nerds, it is on themselves to find arrangements. Still absolutely ridiculous assessment.

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