Huge Gender Bias Found in Hiring

If the goal is to have roughly equal distribution according to some metric and the company/field/whatever has a skewed distribution by that metric the hiring is going to be "obviously biased". What other option is there other than accepting that the current state of affairs will continue w/o change?

This applies in pretty much every field, and I'm comfortable with trying to have balanced working environments. Role models, mentors, team vs. individual players - pick whatever aspects of interpersonal interactions you're interested and I think things will go worse with a monoculture.

Gender and aspects of gender are the flavour at the moment, but it's been other things in the past and will be other things in the future. Unless it's a solo project, actions to improve aggregate performance are a win. And such improvements include "soft" aspects such as "can we secure work", "can we retain/recruit talent", "can we secure funding", "will dogs eat our dog food", ...

I will be the first to admit: there might be implicit biases for hiring a men but all of the spoken preferences are for women. (coming from myself, managers, recruiters). Female candidates are actively treated differently.

I don't think the people standing on the sidelines crying wolf really understand the situation.

The reality is that there are VERY FEW female graduates doing anything related to tech. That's why tech is male dominated.

Go look at CS, EE, ECE departments of any school. There are very few women.

Outside of tech, gender bias is very common. Why? Because some roles require skills that the other gender did not develop (nature or nuture..no idea)

Example, firefighters are a male dominated role. Nurses are a female dominated role.

Are there exceptions? Yes.

Are either of these groups sitting together in a big "dickfest/boobfest" meeting and actively deciding not to hire the other gender? No.

Most women complaining from the sidelines should go and develop skills that male-dominated roles require. Also, be ready to compete for a job. If you want to be treated like men, be willing to accept job rejections. For every male hired in a role, there were many other males rejected. Just being male wasn't enough.

Subtle nuance but an important one to understand that nobody is colluding against women.

I don't see why this is posted under #gender inequality. How can it be gender inequality if it disadvantages males? It doesn't count.

This isn't surprising.

What bothers me though, is discriminatory practice in promotion.

I routinely see females get promoted when they:

1. marry 2. have babies

Colour me shocked.

Men have consistently been negatively stereotyped for a long time.

Ask parents if they would accept a male nanny, and all you hear is concerns of pedophiles. You turn on TV and you see dumb incompetent slobs whose wives are the smart ones in the family.

I wonder if that leads to any sort of bias against men?

Guilty of that myself ... 10 years ago I said that the next developer will be a woman. She was just awesome. Also pretty. And could curse and throw slurs with the best of us :)