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Re:Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimi... by biztos on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @01:02AM (#34877284)
> less likely to be pre-judged

I wonder how much that has to do with the hiring managers also being women. (For the places where that’s the case.)

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Re:Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimi... by roguecoder on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @01:28AM (#34877468)
It is likely to have more to do with gender stereotyping, and attitudes towards the work itself. Women and men alike perpetuate gender discrimination: https://escholarship.org/content/qt8s94154n/qt8s94154n.pdf

Fields that hold fixed-mindset beliefs, where success in the field is attributed to innate talent, "being smart" or other unchanging characteristics, have significantly more discrimination against women and traditionally-marginalized racial groups than do fields that believe success relies on hard work and practice: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1261375

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