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0 pointsWaterluvian2y ago0 comments

While it’s unrealistic to believe that every bad thing that happens to you is because of discrimination, being part of a commonly discriminated group has an effect of making everything harder.

Lots of people struggle to find a job. Now imagine if on top of that, some additional percentage of jobs are off the table to begin with.

In a way, this reminds me of climate change. You can’t usually point to any one event and definitively say “this was caused by discimination,” but you’re quite aware it’s happening overall.

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Manuel_D2y ago

San Francisco and Seattle aren't exactly hotbeds of intolerance. The large-scale studies on discrimination in tech companies did find slight gender discrimination, in favor of women: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3672484

Glawen2y ago

My company has a goal of 35% women in executive position. The thing is that we are working in the industry, you know, factories and machines. This environment does not attract women, we barely have women engineers. That means that any women in engineering willing to take responsibility is fast tracked to management. This was the same at my previous employers.

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