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Women Interviewing For Tech Jobs Actually Did Worse When Their Voices Were Masked As Men's (fusion.net)
Kristen V. Brown, reporting for Fusion:It is well-trod territory at this point that biases against women's technological abilities hold women in technology back. Study after study has shown bias persists at every point of the employment process. So the start-up interviewing.io decided to try and do something about it. It masked women's voices to sound like men's and vice versa during online interviews to see if interviewers would like them better. It was inspired to do the experiment because it was seeing some alarming data. Interviewing.io is a platform that allows people to practice technical interviewing anonymously and, hopefully, get a job in the process. After amassing data from thousands of technical interviews, the company noticed a troubling trend, writes founder Aline Lerner in a blog post: "Men were getting advanced to the next round 1.4 times more often than women. Interviewee technical score wasn't faring that well either -- men on the platform had an average technical score of 3 out of 4, as compared to a 2.5 out of 4 for women."
Talk for yourself, we in Europe think it's great that you work hard on destroying your competitiveness.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I see your point, but the problem is the "women's perspective" is usually an emotional argument that doesn't hold water in a logically arrived reality. It's like saying let's have a Republican's anti-science opinion on global warming just to have a differering opinion to break the consensus. It only harms things by distracting from the real issues.
People genuinely interested in gender bias are not at all surprised by this. It's been well understood for a long time. Feminism has a word for it - patriarchy. It affects men and women, even biasing women against other women. A lot of study and consideration has gone into it.
Unfortunately, all silly studies like this do is set us back. Well, that and generate some free publicity.
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Study shows, when men enjoy the privilege women receive, they do even better. Study shows, when women are forced to compete while suffering from the same prejudice men suffer under, they do worse.
Conclusion: This is all mens fault. Men are bad, and anyone who denies being bad is particularly bad. Anyone who fails to disregard the evidence and claims male privilege doesn't exist is guilty of hate. Anyone who denies that female privilege exists, or claims that feminists are a privileged hate group is criminally insane.
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