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Queensland University of Technology defends removing 'merit' from hiring policy
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Neutrion:

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EDIT:
A 6 year PhD in Anthropology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at no less than Yale anyone?
https://anthropology.yale.edu/academics/graduate-programs/combined-phd-anthropology-wgss

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Full of women?

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We should demand equal representation in those studies. And  reduce the faculty numbers until it's 50% men.

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Oh, no no no NO! I suggest this to be a strictly genitalically female study with the invitation of one single non american with a diverse reproductive organ interested in the above mentioned PhD work.
Otherwise the masculinity would be too toxic!
Halcyon:
In relation to the article: What a load of shit. There really isn't much more that I can say.
RJSV:
   Diversity, and don't forget fairness.
   I took the tack, similar to '.RC.' posted reply.
Mentioned 'Diversity signalling' in off-hand way, like "...Everybody knows that's a silly boast, how diverse our business, club, etc. is."
   WRONG MOVE there.  I got 86xed and plus they (said) my 'files were shredded'...whatever that means, in 2023.
vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on November 28, 2023, 01:38:03 am ---As the title says:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-17/qut-defends-removing-merit-from-hiring-policy/103114562


--- Quote ---Queensland University of Technology's vice-chancellor has defended the decision to remove all references to "merit" from its hiring policy.
Staff were told about the move via an internal email, which informed them that they would be moving away from "the merit principle" towards a "more inclusive suitability assessment".
Vice-chancellor Margaret Sheil told ABC Radio Brisbane the suitability assessment would consider factors such as gender and ethnic backgrounds.

Professor Sheil said it would also consider the current demographic breakdown of their various schools and disciplines.

She said women, for example, were under-represented in science and engineering at QUT whereas men were under-represented in teaching and nursing.
She dismissed suggestions that the hiring process should be colourblind, saying that was impossible in practice.

"When people say things like 'We do this on merit', they're actually reflecting the bias of their own experience," Professor Sheil said.
"There's so much data on this around selection, whether it's recruitment into orchestras or into universities.
"There isn't a way of being colourblind that's not got some form of bias into it."

She said staff undertook unconscious bias training, and that the selection committees were chosen with diversity in mind.
She said they would aim to hire a diversity of personalities, such as recruiting more outgoing scientists who were good at industry engagement.

'We don't want everybody to look the same'
Professor Sheil denied the policy was a "political" decision, insisting it was a practical move to improve the university's talent pool.

"We need to access the entire talent pool, and we don't want everybody to look the same," she said.
"We need the workforce to reflect the students coming through, and we also know people look at things differently when they come from different backgrounds.
"I've been working in improving diversity in academic environments my entire career; it's got nothing to do with contemporary politics."

Professor Sheil said she was the first female professor of chemistry in Australia and has subsequently spent her life trying to get more women into science.
QUT claims the suitability assessment is based on the Queensland Public Service Commission's hiring strategy.

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I've always thought "merit" was bullshit, particularly when management use it.
Every time I see it used by that demographic, I read it as "drinks with the Boss".
But, then, I'm old & nasty!
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on November 28, 2023, 01:13:01 pm ---Well, that's what you get when you let a leftist through your door. They shame you for who you are, send you on reeducation camp, or get you fired. Set up camp, and make policies like this.
Never hire an identity politician, they are truly the most toxic employees, and what their policies are doing is in fact illegal.
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Any wiff of identiy politics in a job candidate will usually get you instantly rejected these days. It's back firing big time.
Those who got caught up in the whole woke trend thing, if they have an ounce of sense left will scrub their history as best they can, starting with the pronouns.
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