| donathos said: Bingo. Recently, there's been started a movement to end "blind auditions" in hiring for orchestral groups. Blind auditions were started with the goal of removing discrimination from the hiring process, to provide equal access for individuals without respect to their race, color, creed, etc. However, apparently it is the case that when blind auditions are employed, you cannot ensure "equity": you cannot ensure that you'll wind up with a certain percentage of, say, black orchestra members... because you aren't taking race into account in the hiring practice at all. And so, the Woke wish to add discrimination back into the hiring process (so long as the beneficiaries are minorities, and the ones discriminated against are male, white, etc.). They call it "justice." |
Yeah, I have also one of those sad examples. At my university the employment process is somewhat transparant, as the rules under every open position clearly state: with the same qualifications, women are prefered. One of the problems I see in this, is that there are hardly two people with the exact same qualifications. At job interviews so much depends on soft skills and how articulate you can sell yourself, also how well you as a person can fot into a particular team. And so on. So what those nasty rules really do is adding gender as quality criteria and state that being a woman is better for the job, even though it is an outside rule and gender really has nothing to do with how good or bad you might be at your job.
