<story><title>Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-is-letting-job-advertisers-target-only-men</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Endy</author><text>It has nothing to do with virtue, it&amp;#x27;s a matter of Facebook and its advertisers violating the written law. EEOC exists due to law, and all employers are required to abide by it.  If you violate equal opportunity employment by discriminating for any one of a number of protected classes, you are acting unlawfully.  Facebook should not be so openly allowed to violate the law, and for doing so, the individuals in the corporation as well as the corp itself should be charged with their crimes and assessed fines.</text></item><item><author>King-Aaron</author><text>So the argument, as I see it here, is that companies should be forced to spend additional resources advertising to demographics that they have identified as not strong leads in their campaigns, so that overly virtuous people can feel happy about them spending money on something that likely won&amp;#x27;t concern them in the slightest.&lt;p&gt;Righto.&lt;p&gt;If the article&amp;#x27;s title was &amp;quot;Facebook is letting job advertisers target only women&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Facebook is letting job advertisers target only people in their ideal demographic&amp;quot;, I wonder if the discussion would be any different here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>The parent post allude to the fact that many companies do already advertise exclusively to a single gender in the name of outreach. You can not just throw around the idea of &amp;quot;protected classes&amp;quot; to mean that discrimination is acceptable except when it benefit men.&lt;p&gt;If targeted job advertisement based on gender is illegal then let make that the new norm. The extreme end on both side of the so called gender war will be against it and hopefully the majority in the middle will be in favor of it.  I strongly doubt however that the law can currently be used to push this since so much of out reach programs have been using targeted job advertisement.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-is-letting-job-advertisers-target-only-men</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Endy</author><text>It has nothing to do with virtue, it&amp;#x27;s a matter of Facebook and its advertisers violating the written law. EEOC exists due to law, and all employers are required to abide by it.  If you violate equal opportunity employment by discriminating for any one of a number of protected classes, you are acting unlawfully.  Facebook should not be so openly allowed to violate the law, and for doing so, the individuals in the corporation as well as the corp itself should be charged with their crimes and assessed fines.</text></item><item><author>King-Aaron</author><text>So the argument, as I see it here, is that companies should be forced to spend additional resources advertising to demographics that they have identified as not strong leads in their campaigns, so that overly virtuous people can feel happy about them spending money on something that likely won&amp;#x27;t concern them in the slightest.&lt;p&gt;Righto.&lt;p&gt;If the article&amp;#x27;s title was &amp;quot;Facebook is letting job advertisers target only women&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Facebook is letting job advertisers target only people in their ideal demographic&amp;quot;, I wonder if the discussion would be any different here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>It doesn&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;necessarily&lt;/i&gt; break the law though, as far as I can tell.&lt;p&gt;There are exceptions in the law for when the person&amp;#x27;s sex genuinely matters. If you&amp;#x27;re hiring male models&amp;#x2F;dancers&amp;#x2F;actors&amp;#x2F;medical test subjects, for instance, then you&amp;#x27;re exempted. As far as I could see in my skim-read of the article, it makes no mention of such cases.</text></comment>