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."
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday August 10 2017, @11:04PM
No, as usual you are unable to follow the plot and wandering in the direction of a thread hijack to your favorite subject.
The question before us is simple: Is the observed reality that equal numbers of men and women are not employed in various fields a result of bias? If the answer is yes then affirmative action and / or other policies to address the problem are justified and if not, imbalances are not a problem that can be solved at the HR Dept level and continuing to discriminate against males is pointless, unproductive and unjust. Some of your thoughts might apply to other areas of society but those are outside the scope of this study and the discussion thereof.