US appeals court rejects Nasdaq's diversity rules for company boards

[u/ShivasRightFoot]

https://apnews.com/article/nasdaq-sec-dei-diversity-board-a3b8803a646a62aeb2733bbd4603e670

[u/DrunkCaptnMorgan12]

These have to be the silliest rules or standards companies have ever tried to put in place. I don't know about anyone else but I don't care what race, gender, sexual orientation or about any of that stuff. Just hire the best person available. If it happens to be a woman, a transgender person, a minority or whatever, that has Jack Squat to do with anything if they are the most qualified, hire them. No body cares or at least I don't.

[u/All_names_taken-fuck → u/DrunkCaptnMorgan12]

No one has ever said hire less qualified candidates based on race or gender. There’s rarely just one candidate with great qualifications. If everyone has equal merit/backgrounds, then hiring comes down to “who do I personally like?” It’s been shown that most people will hire someone of the same race/sex because subconsciously that’s who they feel more connected to. DEI is trying to remove that unconscious bias by requiring that people with the SAME qualifications but of a different gender or race are hired. Because bias is unconscious the “hey, don’t just hire people who look like you” part has to be said out loud and sometimes mandated.

[u/Rom2814 → u/All_names_taken-fuck]

If you are excluding white or Asian male candidates from CONSIDERATION, you can’t make the claim you are selecting the most qualified candidates and that is what has been happening at some companies focused on DEI (like Google).