Gender Diversity Initiatives BACKFIRE, Get Canceled
October 10, 2018
11 min
2
258
Full
146 of 2,133
Episode 258 · October 10, 2018
Gender Diversity Initiatives BACKFIRE, Get Canceled
0:00 / 11:47
Excerpt playback isn’t available for this episode — use the full-episode link.
Search the Record
Moment search isn’t open for this episode yet
When it opens, you’ll be able to type any phrase and jump straight to the second it was said.
Extreme Political History Video Podcast Jokes Episodes Around October 10, 2018
Episode 146 of 2,133 — walk the feed in the order it was published.
Gender Diversity Initiatives BACKFIRE, Get Canceled
Summary
<p>Gender Blind Diversity Initiatives BACKFIRE, Get Canceled. The latest news is that Amazon used an artificial intelligence to bring about greater diversity in the hiring process. However the social justice initiative had the opposite effect with the AI slowly learning to discriminate against women.<br /> <br /> Other studies have shown similar results. In Australia a gender blind social justice initiative resulted in more men being offered interviews. Interestingly without the initiative women received an advantage. The results of the diversity study was replicated according to Harvard Business School.<br /> <br /> In the past feminists have championed gender blind hiring as a way to increase gender diversity but a few studies and the latest news may prove it to be detrimental to feminism.</p> <p><a href="http://timcast.com/donate">Support the show</a> (http://timcast.com/donate)</p> <p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a></p>
Episode details and artwork are published by the show’s own feed. Sentinel plays short cited excerpts and links every episode back to its publisher.