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by throwawaydjf
502 days ago
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Not in my experience. I’ve seen teams come up with justifications like that female candidates don’t have enough experience in certain technologies, won’t be good cultural fits, or not team players, all rationales that don’t get applied to male candidates. My favorite example is when hiring rockstar developers who are anti-social or toxic. For some reason, it’s ok to hire men who act that way, but totally unacceptable when women do. In startups, leadership goes along with it because they don’t have time to deal with it. In corporate environments HR doesn’t know enough to pushback or their KPIs are if they filled the open positions. The problem is that if you don’t want to hire someone, there so many different ways to disqualify them. |
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If you look at the general experiences of a young men, you’ll see that they are discriminated against in university admissions, in early career hiring and in early career promotion.
This is justified by data points which average outcomes over different age groups. The result may be company wide gender balance, but when you break it down by age you see that the it’s not really a balance, it’s just discrimination against women in some cohorts and discrimination against men in others.