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Oddly enough, the manager(s) at your current job are using sexist rhetoric about women being creative and social to create a policy where women who are hired have to meet a standard of behavior/performance that is higher than would be for any other candidate. While it may be that women are getting hired more often under this state of things, it really is quite sexist.

When you are underrepresented with a certain group of people, who don't start magically attributing sexist or racist attributes to them and demand they meet those stereotypes. Your job has way more problems then just hiring if that is how they approach things.




I agree that the sexist rhetoric is wrong or misplaced. However, if they have a need for people who are especially creative and social, it's fine for that to be part of the hiring bar. I see absolutely no reason to tie it to any stereotype, though.

"We have discovered that employees who are especially creative and social are more successful in our environment. Therefore, when we evaluate a candidate we are much more likely to consider people who are especially creative or social."

Set the bar that you need for your environment. Evaluate people against that bar.




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