<story><title>Women candidates for tech jobs did worse when their voices were masked as men&apos;s</title><url>http://fusion.net/story/320747/gender-masked-for-tech-job-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anotheryou</author><text>Bullshit title.&lt;p&gt;from the original blog post:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; masking gender had no effect on interview performance&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; it appeared that men who were modulated to sound like women did a bit better than unmodulated men and that women who were modulated to sound like men did a bit worse than unmodulated women. Though these trends weren’t statistically significant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kabouseng</author><text>Not statistically significant already says you cant say much about the observation.&lt;p&gt;But here is a thought, what if woman already get preferential treatment (contrary to what many feminist would have you believe), and when their voices are masked as a mans, that preferential treatment falls away.  And vica versa for when mens voices are masked as a womans.&lt;p&gt;And this whole rickmarol is about achieving equal outcomes (even distribution of women to men in tech), and not about equal opportunities or the removal of bias &amp;#x2F; prejudice.</text></comment>
<story><title>Women candidates for tech jobs did worse when their voices were masked as men&apos;s</title><url>http://fusion.net/story/320747/gender-masked-for-tech-job-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anotheryou</author><text>Bullshit title.&lt;p&gt;from the original blog post:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; masking gender had no effect on interview performance&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; it appeared that men who were modulated to sound like women did a bit better than unmodulated men and that women who were modulated to sound like men did a bit worse than unmodulated women. Though these trends weren’t statistically significant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Timshel</author><text>Especially since later on :&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “Once you factor out interview data from both men and women who quit after one or two bad interviews,” she writes, “the disparity goes away entirely.”</text></comment>