[bmmayer1]

"Next couple of new employees are going to be women up until we balance our team."

The CEO should have run this blog post, and particularly this sentence, by a lawyer. It seems pretty clear that the above statement, if reflected in actual hiring practice by the company, is in violation of Section 703(a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act[1]. It is also pretty easy ammunition for an employment discrimination lawsuit.

[1]https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/titlevii.cfm Section 703(a) reads "It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer...to fail or refuse to hire...because of such individual's...sex" and "to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities" because of sex

[intopieces]

You missed this bit.

>The term “employer” means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has fifteen or more employees for each working day.

FTA:

>We’re team of 10 people of which only 2 are women, only one is a developer.

[bmmayer1]

I actually didn't know the employer qualification of Title VII. Thanks for the tip.

However, the second part of my statement still very much applies. This blog post can easily become Exhibit A in an employment discrimination lawsuit in a year when the company has more employees, or even against a completely different company run by the same CEO in the future, to establish a pattern.

Point being, not worth the risk!