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by dr_teh 2765 days ago
The onus is on you to prove that quotas outperform skill-based hiring. Sorry, but d'uh.
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That's the beauty of having a large sample size. There are examples everywhere.

Look at political parties which imposed forms of quotas e.g. UK and Australian Labour. They have extremely high levels of female MPs versus alternative parties. Or look at corporate boards and executives across many countries. Almost all have seen improvements in female participation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_representation_on_corpo...

Isn't that pretty much tautological? Yes, if you impose gender quota, then you're obviously going to get more women. The empirical question is whether the organization is better off as a result.
> They have extremely high levels of female MPs versus alternative parties.

And having more women MPs instead of men has done what exactly for their countries?

I don’t think anyone has particularly great things to say about either countries Labour parties.

Meanwhile in other threads we often discuss how the hiring process is broken for technical positions - what makes us think that hiring in other fields is any better?