Surprise!

[Michael Press]

| An initiative by the leaders of Australian Public Service to
| promote gender equality through blind recruitment efforts has
| failed, according to reports. The trial, which was an effort to
| push more women in senior position jobs, revealed that removing
| the gender from a candidate’s application does not help boost
| gender equality in hiring. The trial also revealed that adding a
| male name to a candidate’s application made them 3.2 percent less
| likely to get the job while adding a female name made it 2.9
| percent more likely that the candidate would be hired.

It "failed"??!!!! This is science. You learned something.
Crack a bottle of champagne.

| Researchers assumed that removing gender identifiers from an
| application would make it easier for women to obtain employment
| in senior positions that have traditionally been dominated by
| men.
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| “We anticipated this would have a positive impact on diversity —
| making it more likely that female candidates and those from
| ethnic minorities are selected for the shortlist,” said Professor
| Michael Hiscox, a Harvard academic. “We found the opposite, that
| de-identifying candidates reduced the likelihood of women being
| selected for the shortlist.”
|
| Hiscox warned governments and companies to consider the real
| possibility that gender-blind hiring processes may actually
| lessen equality in the workplace. “We should hit pause and be
| very cautious about introducing this as a way of improving
| diversity, as it can have the opposite effect,” Professor Hiscox
| claimed.

Yes, lets be sure to enforce our belief system on everybody else.

<http://tinyurl.com/y7wt3vts>
<http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/06/30/study-more-men-hired-in-gender-blind-job-application-process/>

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Michael Press