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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by lawnchair_larry on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:15AM (#21123150)
The narrative that a boys club consciously conspired to take any jobs is quite a silly one.
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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by pnutjam on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:07PM (#21127812)
Conscious or unconscious is really irrelevant.

There was a time that nobody would have considered education peasants. It was not a conscious bias.

Times have changed and will continue to do so, we need to do what we can to correct the mistakes of the past.

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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by lawnchair_larry on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:02PM (#21130602)
It’s quite relevant. The point is nobody pushed anyone out.

Independent autonomous people making decisions about which field they would like to study and seek employment in is not a mistake that needs correcting.

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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by pnutjam on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @09:52PM (#21132797)
Your ignoring history. The ones making the decisions pushed them out. The ones doing the hiring, not the women deciding what to do.
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