Jesper Antonsson
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

Jacky, thanks for your response. The googler did outline a few practices that would discriminate against men, I quote:

“Programs, mentoring, and classes only for people with a certain gender or race [5]
A high priority queue and special treatment for “diversity” candidates
Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate
Reconsidering any set of people if it’s not “diverse” enough, but not showing that same scrutiny in the reverse direction (clear confirmation bias)
Setting org level OKRs for increased representation which can incentivize illegal discrimination [6]”

You could argue that women are implicitly discriminated against to the degree that this explicit discrimination against males doesn’t tip the field in the favor of women at Google, but I doubt that’d be true.

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