Of course we should hire and promote on merit. But unfortunately this isn’t what’s been happening, ever. Women in particular are accustomed to their merit being invisible to decision makers and organisations have been robbed of that merit through bias of decision makers.
It seems the only way to bypass this bias is to force DEI. People will get hurt, but nothing like the damage that’s been done via hiring and promotion practices in decades past.
I’m hopeful it will also force the development of far better KPIs so that merit can be more realistically assessed, and also hopeful for a utopia where DEI is no longer necessary, a relic of the past.
"It seems the only way to bypass this bias is to force DEI."
This implies that the "bias" you're referring to can only be addressed through bypassing. Can you provide any example of genuine social/political progression that was achieved through "bypassing" the problem?
Because I fail to understand why you would make the assumption that such a method would be the only plausible solution. I also don't understand how bypassing anything is ever a way of addressing anything, let alone solving this grossly condensed and ill-defined concept of "bias" which you're referring to.
Of course we should hire and promote on merit. But unfortunately this isn’t what’s been happening, ever. Women in particular are accustomed to their merit being invisible to decision makers and organisations have been robbed of that merit through bias of decision makers.
It seems the only way to bypass this bias is to force DEI. People will get hurt, but nothing like the damage that’s been done via hiring and promotion practices in decades past.
I’m hopeful it will also force the development of far better KPIs so that merit can be more realistically assessed, and also hopeful for a utopia where DEI is no longer necessary, a relic of the past.
"It seems the only way to bypass this bias is to force DEI."
This implies that the "bias" you're referring to can only be addressed through bypassing. Can you provide any example of genuine social/political progression that was achieved through "bypassing" the problem?
Because I fail to understand why you would make the assumption that such a method would be the only plausible solution. I also don't understand how bypassing anything is ever a way of addressing anything, let alone solving this grossly condensed and ill-defined concept of "bias" which you're referring to.