| That's not how it works. An accountant will not have the qualification to get the job done and that's why you are not considering them, it's not discrimination. Discrimination is when you ignore someone or treat them differently based on an attribute that is seemingly non-relevant to what is required to get the job done. Gender, race, religion is often one of those attributes. There may be cases where one of the above attributes is so crucial to the job that it is not discriminatory to consider them. For example a church will not accept an 'atheist bishop' and in that case that is not discrimination. But if you apply for a fastfood job and get rejected because you are an atheist, then that is discrimination. In the case of the author, it would be wrong to treat female applicants differently or only look for females or ignore the male applicants. In my opinion the right approach would be to do the things that results in getting more female applicants so that there will be a higher chance of the best applicant to be a female. |