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Gender, race, and entrepreneurship: A randomized field experiment on investors

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we have to start supporting each other Do you currently feel that white men are not supportive of one another? Or were you referring to a subcategory of white men? > Give it time What do you expect time to change?

White men especially in America tend to pathologically see the world through an individualistic lens and ignore their identity. Things will change as more and more of us start to become conscious of the identity for which the system hates us.

>pathologically see the world through an individualistic lens and ignore their identity.

Pathologically? That's the healthy and correct way to see the world. Seeing through a lens filtered by 'identity' (you obviously mean race and gender) is flawed.

Victims of racism and gender bias... which include both whites and blacks, men and women... need to avoid becoming sexist and racist in response. It'll drag us all down.

Re: Gender, race, and entrepreneurship: A randomized field experiment on investors

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Same thing with job applications: "In an attempt to increase workplace diversity, the Australian public service implemented a .. trial removing all mention of gender and ethnicity from applications. It was found that removing gender from thousands of applications made women less likely to advance through the recruitment process compared to cases where gender was visible. The trial found that a woman's name on an appl…

Nobody prevents Indian women to apply for H1B jobs in US. > Its counter-productive to institute gender and diversity requirements at (tech) companies, where the core problem is at the fundamental immigration level. I don't see anything counterproductive in blind recruitment. It's a normal practice, along with randomizing resume review in a few big companies in places like India, or China exactly because the issue of…

Casteism in Cisco https://archive.is/YLVtE and in Oracle https://archive.is/XTZ5f
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