I stumbled on this in my YT feed. Dirty Harry was 70s movie and was amazed to see the topic of diversity/gender hiring in the movie.
The lady in pink is monitoring to ensure "fair" evaluation .. lol.
Also at 02:52 the lady says "are you saying women's place is in the home?". This clearly not what Harry was saying but it was interpreted to the other extreme. Reminds me of today's situation.
I am not white. But hiring for the sake of diversity alone is not a step in right direction.
Are there any examples of companies that hire for "diversity alone"? My understanding is that is not usually the case.
Putting aside the fact that most occupations are not life or death (like in law enforcement)...A trend we see in one sex (especially men, I'm a man), 0 diversity organizations with power is tremendous abuse and/or corruption. Would the church have dealt with its child abuse problem much earlier if ~50% of the staff at every level were women?
Perhaps an interesting exercise would be to name some historically all male businesses, organizations or institutions that haven't run into these issues or scandals... Can you name any?
I don't believe 100% female orgs are immune. There seems to be an unofficial checks and balances system that is introduced when diversity is part of the picture.
It looked liked a fairly straight-forward example of how systemic sexism forced a female officer who wanted to be on street duty into record keeping.
If time on the 100 yard dash were that important to policing, it would be part of the physical requirements - requirements that the woman would have had to pass in order to get to this stage in the interview process.
Recall too that Kathrine Switzer was assaulted in 1967 for being a woman running in the Boston Marathon. Women at the time were deemed "physiologically incapable" or "too fragile" to run a marathon.
That's only 4 years before Dirty Harry came out, and would have definitely been part of general cultural awareness. Note that the portrayed candidate would have started on the force even before Switzer's real-life run.
Also, you'll notice there was a men's quota too - 5 men and 3 women.
The lady in pink is monitoring to ensure "fair" evaluation .. lol.
Also at 02:52 the lady says "are you saying women's place is in the home?". This clearly not what Harry was saying but it was interpreted to the other extreme. Reminds me of today's situation.
I am not white. But hiring for the sake of diversity alone is not a step in right direction.
PS: I have kept the title same as the video's