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 The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 11 2017, @04:12PM (1 child)
Ahhh, I see. You should try the south or southwest then. There are far less people like that down here than up north or out west.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday August 11 2017, @04:33PM
Central Florida - kind of a blend of Alabama/Georgia and New York/New Jersey/Michigan/Ohio - but only those northerners who are comfortable around the southern/redneck ways.
Gainesville, Florida - where most of my HS classmates went to college, still has active KKK sentiment running around town to this day, vandalizing homes in the night and making lame/vague threats of violence against Asians, and anyone else they're uncomfortable around. It's also the home of the "Islam is of the Devil" t-shirt providing priest who threatened to burn a Quran on 9/11 and managed to get national attention.
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