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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by SamReidHughes on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @12:58AM (#9338851)
> What forms of discrimination does tptacek's argument not apply to?

Job ads that say let's bro down and crush some code? (Generally speaking if women are a small percentage of the applicant pool, it would almost certainly be the case that the optimal hiring funnel makes you more likely to hire a given man than a given woman.)

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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by yummyfajitas on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @06:27AM (#9339766)
That would be discrimination on the part of the female applicants, not on the part of the employer. The woman is not hired because she chose not to apply, not because she was rejected by the employer's choice.
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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by SamReidHughes on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @03:42PM (#9343351)
Just like how black people discriminate between businesses that have "whites only" signs in front and businesses that don't.
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