Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity?

Re:Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity? by totony on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:19PM (#22312377)

This looks illegal afaik, I remember reading that posting job offers to target protected classes (e.g. posting in a men's magazine, restricting facebook ads to men) is illegal

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45569227

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Re:Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity? by ThePhysicist on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:48PM (#22312644)

I don’t think so. In most jurisdictions you’re allowed to take action to reduce inequality and increase diversity, this includes e.g. posting job ads in “women’s” magazines. I think I have seen more than one job ad in such a magazine already (I sometimes read them when I get my hands on one even though I’m not the official target demographic).

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Re:Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity? by totony on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @07:13PM (#22314195)

I tried looking it up, but even Wikipedia seems to suggest this is not the case[1] Do you have any reference I could look at?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_Unit...

EDIT: Also I believe it's legal to post in a (wo)men's magazine, as long as you post in the other gender's magazine too (e.g. you can't focus on only one demographic)

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