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0 pointsOJFord6y ago0 comments

You might be right that's why they don't exist, but if so I'm not sure it's well-founded. The same legislation prevents discriminating on gender, but there's no problem (that I'm aware of, and there seem to be plenty of them) with women-specific recruitment/careers things.

You can't use age (resp. gender) as a factor in your decision making (bloody difficult to prove one way or the other most of the time I imagine) but that doesn't mean you can't run jobs4oldies.com or Women's Careers Day with Special Guest Sheryl McHighflyer.

That doesn't mean you should, but I'm pretty sure it's not illegal (in the UK, or generally against the spirit of similar legislation). IANAL.

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janbernhart6y ago

It's indeed not illegal to do so. I'm just trying to explain why most job boards/ platforms don't register/work with age. Why there are a lot of initiatives around woman in tech and not oldies in tech? I'm afraid the answer is; there's a lot of karmapoints to be won first the former, while the latter will hurt your image/brand as the next best thing where magic happens.

(Not saying I agree with this or I like it, it's just what I see).

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