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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday August 10 2017, @09:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the doing-science dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

A measure aimed at boosting female employment in the workforce may actually be making it worse, a major study has found.

Leaders of the Australian public service will today be told to "hit pause" on blind recruitment trials, which many believed would increase the number of women in senior positions. Blind recruitment means recruiters cannot tell the gender of candidates because those details are removed from applications. It is seen as an alternative to gender quotas and has also been embraced by Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Victoria Police and Westpac Bank.

In a bid to eliminate sexism, thousands of public servants have been told to pick recruits who have had all mention of their gender and ethnic background stripped from their CVs. The assumption behind the trial is that management will hire more women when they can only consider the professional merits of candidates. Their choices have been monitored by behavioural economists in the Prime Minister's department — colloquially known as "the nudge unit".

Professor Michael Hiscox, a Harvard academic who oversaw the trial, said he was shocked by the results and has urged caution. "We anticipated this would have a positive impact on diversity — making it more likely that female candidates and those from ethnic minorities are selected for the shortlist," he said. "We found the opposite, that de-identifying candidates reduced the likelihood of women being selected for the shortlist."


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday August 10 2017, @10:07PM (8 children)

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday August 10 2017, @10:07PM (#551905) Journal

    I am sick of cisfemale privilege.

    • I have the privilege of using my assigned gender at birth as a legitimate excuse for my own failures.
    • I have the privilege of being accountable only for my own actions and words.
    • I have the privilege of my assigned gender at birth being a credential that is the equivalent of a college degree.
    • I have the privilege of being unaccountable for my own failures.
    • I have the privilege of any positive stereotypes of my assigned gender becoming a legitimate part of my identity, regardless of whether or not I actually have those traits.
    • I have the privilege of any negative stereotypes of my assigned gender being the equivalent of hate speech, especially if I have those traits.
    • I have the privilege of being able to shift responsibility for the consequences of my failures to persons assigned the male gender at birth.
    • I have the privilege of being able to freely enter professions the involve interactions with children.
    • I have the privilege of being unaccountable for my own financial solvency.
    • I have the privilege of demanding non-emergency medical care at no out-of-pocket cost.
    • I have the privilege of being unaware of my privileges.
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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday August 10 2017, @10:59PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday August 10 2017, @10:59PM (#551926) Journal

    I'll be back to mod you up tomorrow.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @11:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @11:03PM (#551927)

    Asian 👷🏿

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @11:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @11:47PM (#551948)

    Oh crap, another tranny drama rant...

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday August 11 2017, @12:06AM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday August 11 2017, @12:06AM (#551961) Homepage

      Reminds me of Garafolo's cameo in Half-Baked:

      " I have killed. I have helped kill. I have killed part of myself. I cannot change this. I... I must seek Buddha. I must seek Christ "

      Thorogood: " You must seek therapy. "

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by unauthorized on Thursday August 10 2017, @11:54PM (3 children)

    by unauthorized (3776) on Thursday August 10 2017, @11:54PM (#551951)

    assigned gender at birth

    Gender is "assigned" during gemete meiosis.

    • (Score: 2, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 11 2017, @01:46AM (1 child)

      In before some dipshit points out that like 0.0001% of children are surgically assigned their gender.

      Pro-tip: If there aren't enough of you to at least constitute an annoying minority, you're irrelevant to society.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday August 11 2017, @05:29AM

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday August 11 2017, @05:29AM (#552134) Homepage Journal

        In Michigan they have a law against that. Governor Snyder made it a felony, which is fantastic. It's done by what are called Dawoodi Bohra Muslims. You probably never heard of them but I read about it on Breitbart. Who knew there were Muslims in Michigan? I'll tell you, they're very sick. At a very young age, they sew the pussy shut. The Muslims, not Breitbart. Don't get me wrong, I love it when the ladies go under the knife for a nip & tuck. Very sexy! Except Mika, her face is a mess. Plastic surgery is terrific, but they should wait until they're 16. Just my opinion, I think they should wait. So they know what a pussy is for before they get it sewn up. Like I said, just my personal opinion, wait till they know what it's for! 🇺🇸

    • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday August 11 2017, @03:08PM

      by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Friday August 11 2017, @03:08PM (#552332) Journal

      No, it most certainly is not. Even intersexed people are assigned a gender. This happens at birth, and that is a social construct and a legal fiction—the kind of social construct that TERFeminists love.

      Now, 99.99% of the time, though, this social construct is at a comfortable intersection of reproductive gender and brain gender. Obviously, it cannot accurately accommodate intersexed people. I'll admit I don't know as much as I should about how brain gender manifests in intersexed people, but one person I knew kind of waffled between identified genders a few times (I forget that person's assigned, legal gender). I think they settled on female, but I didn't know them for very long, only a month or so.

      If you're talking about brain gender, that's about two months after conception. 99.99% of the time, this matches genetic gender.

      And sometimes Mom Nature gives you a big fucking middle finger, and reproductive gender does not match genetic gender, but I understand in those cases there's a good chance that brain gender will match reproductive gender and not genetic gender.

      Hope that helps!