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by skinkestek 1651 days ago
No, compared to what I hear from other places there is no hate against men compared to what sometimes get described here; it is just that women are preferred and get slightly higher pay on average if my contacts in management are to be believed, but keeping women on board is a priority and also they pay us men very fairly.
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youerbt 1651 days ago
No hate - that's an interesting perspective. Such practices, or even just results without intention, would for sure be described as hate (or something negative) if men were preferred and get slightly higher pay.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling you out, you just provided description without judgment and that's great. It's just a reflection on how those topics are usually framed, and that's a sad state of affairs.

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skinkestek 1651 days ago
> Such practices, or even just results without intention, would for sure be described as hate (or something negative) if men were preferred and get slightly higher pay.

To be clear I disagree with calling it hate also if it goes the other way.

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icare_1er 1651 days ago
"Positive" discrimination is the worst, and makes it pretty clear to everyone on the floor, that the person has been put where he/she is for reasons that have nothing to do with how he/she performs at work. I've seen it first hand, and it was quite embarrassing to watch a female member appointed to a specific committee just for the sake of having a women, that no one listened to, that clearly had no business there, etc... People deciding what women employment rate and where, should be, reminds me a lot of certain communist bureaucrats deciding what the GDP of the country should be and passing a law saying "this year, the GDP will be x"... you just cannot fake reality.
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