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by tptacek 3402 days ago
The premise of your argument is that people are hired (or promoted) based on concrete, analytical evaluations of their abilities. Nobody who works in this industry believes that happens.

We enjoy discussing how warped industry hiring processes are when it's just shop talk, but introduce gender parity to the discussion and all the sudden it's like someone proposed to round pi down to 3.

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If such a problem exists, then its solution does not involve institutionalizing discrimination.
"If" such a problem exists?