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MeyhamM2 t1_jdyg99h wrote

Reply to comment by Lonely-Description85 in [OC] My partner’s 2 months job hunt as a Product Manager (UK, 4 years xp) by fryd_rice_all_rise

As experienced by my boyfriend who is a PhD student in a science field: do they give the women in your department the heebiejeebies? How do they talk to women and interact with them? If anything seems amiss about respect or boundaries: dump them. His department had a sexual harasser in the past and they were taking the “twice shy” approach after that.

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Lonely-Description85 t1_jdyje64 wrote

Good thing there aren't more Ted Bundy's out there. People's interpretation of others can be so wrong. They didn't catch it the first time but NOW you can trust the women's "instincts" about someone? When you have women out there that consider mustaches "rapey" , I think maybe you need to just incorporate some social behavior hypotheticals into your interview questionnaire.

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Critical-Network-247 t1_je2e8sp wrote

It's funny that you're getting downvoted given stuff like https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/jobs/blind-audition-helps-remove-gender-bias-in-recruitment. 'Creeps' is incredibly unprofessional and gives me dating vibes. What does 'creep' in this work context even mean? The way someone looks, talks? Bullshit.

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Lonely-Description85 t1_je2n3ke wrote

Exactly. Modern societies idea that women can magically spot the "creeps" is just completely asinine. Like I said in another comment, if a women who thought mustaches were rapey worked at my potential job site and had a say in my hiring, I'd be fucked.

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Critical-Network-247 t1_je2np3h wrote

The fucked up thing is that blatant bias & discrimination is so common in interviews that aren't done "blindly". And it impacts women of course eg https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/aug/12/managers-avoid-hiring-younger-women-maternity-leave.

Some recruiters are young people who don't have a lot of maturity or life experience. Being so immature I don't find it surprising they come up with idiotic reasons to reject someone, especially since many jobs have hundreds of candidates or so.

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