I agree wholeheartedly! I think that this is the sort of attitude which would be conducive to moving the state of affairs along. In these fights it's often lost that the problem at hand is that treating people in a way that makes them feel like they're not welcome and not respected is at the root of the issue.
So what? It's not like those men are going to find all employment doors shut to them. They weren't guaranteed jobs at IBM, and the assumption that they should have a say in the firm's hiring criteria and strategic goals demonstrates an almost laughable sense of entitlement.
Because it's kind of strange when I think of it. I've interviewed a lot of people in my life already and I can't remember a single time grades were brought forward or mattered. Is it an US thing?
On top of that, even if the company didn't consider them, their classmates probably knew where everyone fell in relation to each other. They would know if they got passed over for someone who had better grades than themselves.
I'm not saying that's definitely the case here, just that grades alone don't tell the whole story.
I don't care if you were pampered and that's why you got A's. If you have the necessary knowledge and are a hard worker, you have my vote.
What I said was nothing but perception.
If you work hard to get good grades, you are likely to work hard at your work place too.
Though its true not every hard working student gets good grades.
Just make sure you don't do it to anyone, like straight, white males who have the political strength to resist it or you'll never hear the end of it.
genuine/serious questions:
would you be okay with quotas in sports? music? movies? something like "30% of olympic 100m finalists should be allocated to minorities" etc?
I've seen students with laughable grades (no, I am not making this up) get into medical schools, because they are from underprivileged group. Would you be okay with them performing surgery on you?
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Quota system is a very dangerous game to play - it usually goes downhill quickly, even if the intentions are good and even if people who run it are super competent. There are numerous other ways to help the under privileged.
They'll not even notice after decades of this.
History has lots of people from the privileged class who ended up working to improve society as a whole. Bill Gates is great living example.
May be a better way is to create a nice atmosphere where women feel welcome and comfortable, having very strict code of conduct in conference and generally us (male engineers) being nice to them - this might take time, but the changes would stay.