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> I'm happy to see one of the replies calls it sex discrimination.

I'm not seeing this reply. In what sense is it discriminatory?




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If you look at any graduate program in CS/Stats/Math today, you would think "PhD in CS" is a proxy for "Asian".

Equality of opportunity doesn't result in equality of outcomes. Many of those Asian students have to climb countless immigration barriers and out-compete literally a billion people to come to the US. They arguably have _less_ opportunity than a white woman who's a US citizen.

The idea that overstating requirements is somehow discriminatory is laughable. There is _nothing_ stopping women or whatever group is the oppressed group of the day from applying for a _job listing_. It's literally just submitting a resume, there's not even a big time investment associated with it. If there was discrimination in the resume screening that would be a different story, but you can't claim prima facie that having inflated job requirements is sexist.


So is "STEM degree". Perhaps we should stop recruiting anyone with a STEM background?


That doesn't make it discriminatory.




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