Originally Posted by
ecam
So you're saying you think 95% white and male is unfair? What's your goal, 100%?
Women are slightly over 50% of the nation.
People with African descent are about 25%.
Yet these groups represent less than 5% of the industry. Why?
Ever think maybe "back in my day" people only wanted to hire those who looked like them and shared common interests?
That's why HR does the hiring now, not pilots.
I’m saying none of it should matter.
No school app, job app, or anything other life course app should contain any race or gender info.
The names should be replaced with something like random numbers until the app progresses to the interview stage.
When a person sits down for an interview, the vast part of the selection process has been done. An interviewer shouldn’t even have any idea who’s up next, just call a number and the next qualified person steps up.
Fairness is what we are supposed to be after. Legalized discrimination is not fair.
Remember my earlier post? I was an interviewer for a previous employer. It was an airline. I remember how we were told we better hire people from certain racial/gender categories-just rubber stamp them, no matter how weak their knowledge or experience may have been.
That isn’t right. It’s no more right than what used to happen.