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In the coming decades, I think a lot more of this will come out... I am not saying it is right or wrong...just my observation... on my university course, women were offered lower entry grades to boost numbers.

A white male friends is worried he will not make MD at a large US bank because he is not the right sex, race or sexual orientation...The established white male MDs are entrenched and it is the up and coming generation which is getting discriminated against.

Will people start to withhold information on race and sex in their applications for fear of being discriminated against? I think so...

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When IBM came to my campus for recruiting, their presentation openly said they are going to hire more women than men, even if men had higher GPA and did better in interviews. This was to “increase diversity” of their workforce, they said.

Most of the men at my campus just shrugged and laughed it off. It was just one company (if memory serves right) among the dozens that came to the campus that year. I wonder now if this was happening more, but quietly. Hey, at least IBM was open about it!

This is a very difficult slope. We want to help minorities. But we also want to be fair to others at the same time. In the case of academia, it is much worse situation simply because there is a huge pool of qualified applicants for a very small number of positions.

IBM is probably not somewhere you want to build a long term career in any case.

They're known for ageism[1] amongst other things, which won't affect new graduates but should be seen as a canary in a coal mine.

If they're penalising people solely based on age what are the chances they'll also penalise you for not matching some other non-performance based criteria?

1. https://www.consultancy.uk/news/30498/ibm-accused-of-ageism-...

how can you say that ibm practices ageism and immediately say it does not affect new graduates?

don't you see how that affects new graduates chances of being hired?

Think they mean won’t affect new graduates negatively.

Information such as race and sex should not even be on the application form to begin with.

France considered making "blind" resumes mandatory, i.e. the resume would have a top part with name and other PII that would be cut off and kept by HR, the hiring manager would not see them. Of course, this not deal with the problem of discrimination during in-person interviews but it would address the issue of candidates rejected from consideration just because of their name.

Funny how these things work sometimes. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition...

I check the box that says "I prefer not to say" whenever the question of race or sex comes up shrug.

He could always just come out as non-binary to get almost all of that access at almost no personal cost.

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar hell. It's exactly what we don't want here.

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