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Well... why is it, then, that underrepresentation of women must suggest sexism, but the (orders of magnitude higher) overrepresentation of asians - specifically from India - doesn't suggest bias?


From a recruiter standpoint, that answer is easy - there are literally orders of magnitude more Indians applying.

So the bias against women due to decades of societal conditioning leads to less than 50/50 representation because less are applying, which companies are trying to patch by leveling the playing field, making their internal population breakdown identical to the external one.

Seeing shitloads of Indians is a passive effect of that internal/external thing - there are around 1.2 billion Indians...




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