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Originally Posted by Hugh
Speaking of unconcious bias...  |
Unconscious bias is another white elephant.
I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, but bias exists across all race, sex, age, class, looks. Etc you name it.
To look at it at a base level, if you were male and recruiting for a position and two equally qualified women applied. One looked like Beyoncé and one was a fat ginger girl from Rotherham I’m pretty sure I know which way your unconscious bias would lean. You could swap old ginger, for bald, short fat bloke = same result.
It isn’t just black people and woman that are victims, everyone is and I would argue older people are the most.
Everybody has bias, that’s just the way it is.
Positive discrimination, quotas, etc is just discrimination and it always seems to go just one way.
We recently just had Women in Engineering day. A big fan fair to get more women in engineering as they are under-represented. No problem with that. But firms like VM are pursuing 50/50 representation in their engineering base. Which is unrealistic and not good for the business as they’re not getting the best engineers.
But where is the men in nursing day, men in primary teaching day, men in caring day?
We should do more to encourage everyone to pursue the paths they want, but do you think the reason there aren’t many women engineers is because they don’t want to do it?