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 AlexTWithBeard on Monday September 30, 2019 @10:51AM (#21115962)

Imbalance is bad because participation in civil society, to include employment, should be representative of society as a whole.

But why?

I understand the point that diverse workforce leads to diverse ideas. But will fifty women per hundred employees produce five times more diverse ideas than, say, ten women?

Hiring women just for the sake of hiring women looks like a cargo cult.

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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by novaleaf on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:32AM (#21116414)

I agree that "increase diversity" is a rather obtuse meta argument, and using it implicitly argues that there are not other significant discrimination issues facing these groups. Maybe it is a better argument to make in certain settings though. For example, a company wouldn't want to admit to having discriminatory biases in hiring, so "increase diversity" is a much more palatable objective.

The more honest, less PR answer is that people still discriminate on huge range of factors. Race and Gender are just the most obvious and egregious.

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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by HeyLaughingBoy on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:55PM (#21131149)

You are being deliberately disingenuous.

The post you're replying to specifically claims that it is to make employment more representative of the whole of society. Your statement that it's "hiring women just for the sake of hiring women" completely ignores the very words you're quoting.

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