re: GE's Plan to be a sexist company and deliberately discriminate against males

But BO said we could change our gender and the deep state will pay the tab....think I'll just be a count!

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Because they will only have to pay them 77 cents for every dollar they would have had to pay a man.

It's about time somebody realized they were greatly overpaying for that male work.

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I understand them wanting equality, but just hiring women because they're woman (may or not be qualified) seems counter intuitive to the way business should work.

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Common sense never has been a strong point of the SJW's.

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You think they are doing that without the data to support it?

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Data to support what exactly? That women are better employees? Then shite hire more women than men. Take the most qualified for every position, setting #s on how many qualified per category is discrimination.

I don't know the numbers but by this logic if 2x as many men apply then 2x as many men are denied, and vice versa. Thus limiting your chances of being hired by factors outside of your control, you know, the definition of discrimination. Equal results =\= equal opportunity.

This is a PR move involving entry level employees, plain and simple. And is a trend that would effect the livelyhood of graduates of a certain gender in that field. Unless the graduation ratio is exactly 1:1 male to female.
If workplace diversity was truly more important than individual qualifications you'd think some franchise would attempt it in the uber competitive professional sports markets, where wins and losses show plain as day annually.

Shorting GE now, thanks for the heads-up

Diverse teams do better than non diverse teams, but you should still hire the best person

Link to study proving this?

Because data shows the opposite.

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Diverse teams do better than non diverse teams, but you should still hire the best person

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You couldn't be more wrong.

I'm all for hiring more women in introductory tech jobs. My wife is a tech person, and specifically, a senior cloud engineering architect for large cap business. She constantly bemoans the fact that there are so few women in tech.

That said, GE's HR and Legal departments may want to review Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order 11246 and the new rules of the compliance program of the US Dept. of Labor related to federal contracts, set this past June. GE is a major contractor to Fed/Gov.

One of the more important features of the new rule include:

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Equal Workforce Development Opportunities. The new rule makes clear that covered employers may not set requirements for jobs or training that are based on an applicant’s or employee’s sex unless the contractor can demonstrate that such requirements are a bona fide occupational qualification.

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Hmm? Now how do they plan to get around that?

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Diverse teams do better than non diverse teams, but you should still hire the best person

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That is because if you evaluate the largest number of people equally and pick the best you will end up with the best people.

That means you consider everybody because that is the largest pool possible. When it ends up being more diverse that is a byproduct.

If one group is full of people demonstrably less qualified and you hire some of those just to be more "diverse" that isn't going to make your team better.