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Well said that cheerful simian.
I heard an interesting snippet on the radio today. Came into it halfway through, so don;t know what the study they were referring to was, but whatever it was it showed that both men and women instinctively trust men more than women in positions of authority, or somesuch.
There was a woman on there who was saying that she'd always been anti-positive discrimination, but having heard the details of the study and looking at how that plays out in whatever field they were talking about, she was reconsidering her position.
One of the problems with inequality in hiring, is that until there is a strong and viable picture in mind of the unfairly treated group, be that along race or gender lines, in position, they will always be up against a barrier. It doesn't have to be a thought out conspiracy. And it isn't always a case of one group being prejudiced against another. Sometimes it is just that certain constructed expectations of that group are so deeply embedded in our culture and national psyche that they blind people to other possibilities. And so deeply embedded that we don't notice them guiding our decision making.
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