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Young women (20-35) are more likely to get pregnant and take significant time off from work than their male counterparts. What ranking system could negate the difference that results from men working x hours more per year? Is that desirable or fair?
One in which men also get a reasonable amount of time off work to participate in the birth of their child?
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I am really not interested in a new first-principles explication of the inferiority of women as a workforce demographic in the tech industry. Sorry.
Your comment seems unfairly antagonistic. I'm talking about a well documented phenomenon. Men typically work more hours than women. One of the reasons is pregnancy and maternity leave. https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/mobile/time-spent-working-... If men work more hours, shouldn't you expect ranking systems to consistently favor men? You can try to pretend like this observation is sexist, but you're just refusing to…
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Your comment seems unfairly antagonistic. I'm talking about a well documented phenomenon. Men typically work more hours than women. One of the reasons is pregnancy and maternity leave. https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/mobile/time-spent-working-... If men work more hours, shouldn't you expect ranking systems to consistently favor men? You can try to pretend like this observation is sexist, but you're just refusing to…
I'm no more interested the second time than the first, sorry.
Your comments in this thread are unnecessary and inappropriate.
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I think a simpler and better claim would be that: When managers are faced with stack ranking employees, they will often decide based on factors not purely related to the productivity or value of the employee. ---- That, and as an employee in a stack-ranked organization, you know you need to be competitive. Not in terms of productivity but in terms of "in the eyes of your manager"-- Perception is more important than p…
That's one possibility, but a recent HBR study[0] suggests that we lean on "reasons" like that more quickly than we should. [0] https://hbr.org/2017/10/a-study-used-sensors-to-show-that-me...
People have good reason to be doubtful of social sciences, and the replication crisis has only gotten worse now affecting biological science.
https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-...