Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-dominated occupations

Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by okwubodu on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:36PM (#31126089)

I understand that. But if we have no problem hand waving discrimination away as self-selection when the exact same conclusion is drawn for other groups, I don’t see how this is suddenly different.

Half the top comments on this very thread decry DEI efforts while calling this wrong without the slightest hint of irony.

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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by Manuel_D on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:40PM (#31126155)

> But if we have no problem hand waving discrimination away as self-selection when the exact same conclusion is drawn for other groups

We're not hand-waving away discrimination as self selection. If we saw higher call back rates among male applications as compared to identical female applications then there would be a case for discrimination. When we study the call-back rates in tech companies, the results typically show no bias and sometimes show bias in favor of women [1].

What's happening is that people are alleging discrimination on account of nothing except for disparities in representation in tech. You're right: tech shouldn't be any different. Do we conclude that veterinarians must be rife with anti-male discrimination because they're 80% women? Why do we make the same arguments about tech?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25069644

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