Whaaattt?

@Obelix-Vendée, woke policies are just as bullying. The extreme trans lobby has bullied any number of institutions and companies into doing its bidding out of fear of consequences if they don't. Common sense needs to reassert itself.

 

That's what I said. Not using diversity criteria does not mean you are discriminating. You are seeing all candidates on the basis of their skills, not on which sub-group they belong to.

 

When my 84 year old brother trained as a vet there were only two women in his first year of about 150 students. Nowadays, there are about equal numbers. Society changes but very very slowly.

 

They owned ASDA until a year or so ago.

 

Most vets where I go seem to be female or very near 50/50.
Most dentists I see are female.

Most Pharmacists seem to be female.

I could go on but I dont want to be accused of being sexist.

 

The same thing in Medical Schools. Even today there are specialities with more male staff than females.
In my case I've never seen a female cardiologist.

 

OK, never been to Asda.

 

Many professional orchestras now appoint musicians on completely blind auditions.
The committee are on one side of a curtain the musician on the other identified only by a number.

 

About 30 yrs ago I had a mate who thought he'd try for the Fire service, he went on one of their trial days, physical fitness and all that.
He was told by one of the people running it on the quiet, you're wasting your time mate, we are only looking for ethnic minorities or women but we have to allow everyone to take part.

Needless to say he never got a job with them.

I think its called Positive discrimination.
Which is fine, apparently.

 

I have been a software engineer for nearly 40 years and in that time the proportion of women, at least in my organisation, has stayed roughly the same. Less than 10%.

 

Thankfully the term "transphobia" is really losing its sting lately. As is "bigot".

 

An awful lot of teachers are female too. There is a known shortage of male teachers nowadays.

 

I really like this development. It should be about how a musician sounds.

 

Some one that can't do a job properly can cost the company lots of money, i once worked for a haulage company that had some one that hit low bridge's alot!!!!!!! the owner try to get rid of him but he couldn't untill the insurcenes company refussed to insure that driver