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Plan for 45 women-only senior jobs in third level institutions.
Yup. That’s right. Senior academic jobs that are solely open to women.
The logic behind this [apparently] is that one of the measures by which a country’s equality levels is judged is by the number of women in senior academic posts. So what better way to skew the figures than to artificially create jobs just to bump up the numbers?
There is of course a downside to this and all the other “female quota” ideas that are being floated and that is that any female in a senior position, no matter how well qualified, will be seen as someone just filling the numbers and as there solely because of her sex. Not very flattering to those who obtained a job on merit?
They really should forget this “gender quota” thing. It’s getting out of hand. It’s a load of [lack of] bollox.
But then what would you expect from a Minister for Short Cuts and Women Drivers?
I’d hate to have to think I got a job just because I’m female.
I think it would be best if job applications would be without name, age and gender – so the company could decide on qualification only.
One is allowed to dream of a better world, no?
I have heard that idea proposed and it’s a excellent idea. There are small problems though such as how to contact the applicants without the use of a name? It would be fun at the interview stage as well, seeing an applicant they had pictured as a young woman turns out to be an elderly man?
Well, the first part is easily solved, no? First person reading the application decides if application is interesting enough for the one who decides about applicants to see it. Decision making person only gets relevant information, name, address, gender, age will only be known to the first reader. If decision maker wants to meet applicant, he 7she / it says so, and the person who has the info contacts the applicant and invites him / her / it to job interview.
But I guess it’s too complicated – apart from that, you can of course guesstimate age and gender of people from their CV …
But I guess a company that would really be interested in qualification only, could follow such a kind of procedure.
There is another simple solution – the application form has Last Name and Initials only. There is still the possibility of address bias but that can’t be helped.
I identify as…
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There is no problem.Declare as female,pick an age.Bobs your Uncle or Aunt.
Ask the employer what age group and gender they are looking for and then just head down to surgery if necessary.
So much for the, “hire the most qualified person for the position” attitude. If these companies actually did this then age, gender, etc, and so-on, wouldn’t matter. I would bet that more women would be hired just by doing this. Unfortunately, there’s always the egotistical (dare I say “male”?) idiots that will habitually hire a man over a woman even though the woman is actually a bit more qualified for the position than the man.
they are never in a rush for equality when it comes to people picking up the bins, laying bricks, or cleaning sewers.
Maybe they should start there.