My friend got fired for saying this... your thoughts?

[DonFerrari]

DonFerrari said:

Tachikoma said:

In the end, while asperations play a role initially, for most people they take any job they can, be that IT, janitorial, secretarial or similar, not because they WANT to do that as a profession, but because unemployment is less attractive.

a large portion of IT placements are considered undesirable, regardless of the applicants gender, and what leads us to a situation where a higher portion of IT placements being male, is because when sat in the job centers a woman looking for a job will choose a job such as checkout clerk, receptionist or childcare over IT positions, and men will take IT positions over the others, what drives this? simply the difference in genders, a difference we should not demonize or label a problem, the genders are different, everyone is unique, the onus to insist that difference between genders, race and attitudes is wrong is one that stifles creativity, individuality and above all, freedom.

So much high level thinking shouldn't be allowed...

If two workers are basically identical in skills and you decide to hire the one from poorest family, minority or gender to bring more variety and point of views to company it can be beneficial... but when to bring more variety you skip on skills them you are making a bad decision and impacting negatively the company.

Sure black, atheist, transexual, women, muslim, gueto neighborhood will have different view on life and problems than a White middle class religious heterossexual person and that is valid, as long as his skills are up there for the work.

Totally agree.  unless he have a specific skill or mindset essential for the job or company the whole skill set must take precedent and gender race etc should come after that