Let's do away with Race/Gender questions on applications!!! (employment, interview, racism)

[NYchi]

What's the point anyway? I guess if the government divides, they also conquer.

[Huckleberry3911948]

you mean dont give the employer a heads up he is guna be sued.

[NYchi]

We as a country should demand that they OMIT these types of questions from applications, Employment, housing, academic, etc....

[Lucario]

You don't have to answer those questions. I never do.

They're gonna find out soon enough anyway...........

[CityPerson09]

Because the employer will certainly have no clue about your gender or race when you walk in the door for an interview

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by NYchi

What's the point anyway? I guess if the government divides, they also conquer.

Well, good because then there goes affirmative action out the window.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by NYchi

We as a country should demand that they OMIT these types of questions from applications, Employment, housing, academic, etc....

This is how a bunch of European countries do things. Thank god they don't have a racism problem like the US does.

Collecting this type of information is often instrumental in rooting out racial bias. ie) Identical applications for apartment and certain ethnic groups not being approved etc.

[idahogie]

Originally Posted by NYchi

What's the point anyway? I guess if the government divides, they also conquer.

I don't know about you, but I want to know if certain subgroups aren't doing as well as others. You can't solve problems if you don't know whether they exist or not.

Of course, if you want to make it seem like there aren't any problems, then getting rid of the data is the best way to go about it.

[NYchi]

But the root of the questions are Man made, therefore it being a man made problem. Why did they invent these subgroups anyway? which didn't exist 500 years ago.

[hnsq]

Our goal as a society should not be to manually force more people of certain races into jobs/school/etc, but rather to get to the point where race is a non-issue, like hair color. As long as we keep giving attention to race (through fields on applications, for example), we are keeping ourselves from this goal.