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What is one rule or policy companies can implement to reduce gender bias at work? (lazysoci.al)
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They often do general token things like "hire women"

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[–] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The question of the gender should not be relevant at all when choosing a professional and the fact you insist on making it so will only aggravate the issues.

[–] foxglove@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 hours ago

While ignoring gender sounds good on the surface, I think by ignoring we default to the uncritical and unthinking status quo, which unfortunately is still gendered in nature, i.e. there is something called "implicit bias" where people have internalized biases and preferences that they are not even aware they are thinking or having.

Gender blindness can still be a useful tool, for example, instead of attacking OP for asking how to reduce gender bias, you could have suggested a HR policy that removes any gendered aspects of candidates CVs or applications so that decisions on who gets interviewed can't be subject to those biases.