Originally Posted by
dr dre
What evidence do you have to back up that statement?
I think that TinFoilhat2 has given a reasonable response.
I appreciate that facts to support such claims of lesser quality people being given jobs over better ones due to gender would be nice but how do you suggest anything besides anecdotal evidence. Do you think someone is going to stand up and say "my superior instructed me to fill these positions with specific gender candidate irrelevant of their ability"? Many applicants are aware of this and are loath to create a stir, but I am surprised someone has not pressed to test which would be difficult without knowing your ranking.
It has been going on for years and is called the quota system.
My Canadian mate told me, must be close to 40 years ago, that one quarter of graduating pilots going to fast jet would be French Canadian and it did not matter if only one on course was FC and came last on course he would go to fast jets.