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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: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday August 11 2017, @03:25PM (1 child)

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Friday August 11 2017, @03:25PM (#552353) Journal

    It's interesting. You kind of have to experience it for yourself. I wouldn't say estrogen makes the mind clouded. It's different. It's like living your whole life with tunnel vision, only being able to see the thing you're currently looking at directly, and then suddenly being granted peripheral vision. You can still see the details in focus, but the world is more complete. (To be even more abstract, it's like living in Kansas one's whole life, being taken to Oz via tornado, and discovering vivid, brilliant colors for the first time.)

    (It also doesn't make you crazy. I was crazy to begin with! According to the hot crazy matrix" [youtube.com], which I understand is a very accurate, scientific, and highly advanced model of romance from a heterosexual man's perspective, trans women tend to be below a 4 crazy, which is a trait so far unobserved in cisgendered women. I, of course, am somewhere around a 8 or 9 crazy!)

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday August 12 2017, @04:47AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday August 12 2017, @04:47AM (#552731) Journal

    Trans women would be born with a male brain so thus not crazy as per the matrix logic. Presumably only parts of the brain went male otherwise the whole trans issue would not exist.