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Barnard is an all-female school. And how often are jobs only open to Barnard students?

Facebook is not a single-gender platform.




Advertising on one platform for one gender doesn't mean the job is only for one gender. And if job was open to one gender only, there're already laws against that...

Saying that "FB is not a single gender platform" is like saying that "Higher education is not a single gender platform".


Recruiting only from Barnard doesn't mean that job is only for one gender either.

You're missing their point about using limits on the market supply to discriminate for a job - i.e. even if that job is "open to all", but you've limited applicants to one gender.


Should we make sure every company that sends recruiters to Barnard's career fair also send recruiters to men-only college career fair?


That's a pointless, loaded question.

HR and legal depts that don't want their company to be sued for violating Title VII will make sure that they aren't recruiting only from Barnard, unless they're some bona fide exception (e.g. hiring models for women's clothing). This idea that they need to recruit from men's only career fairs is your own.


Doesn't your argument about company's not wanting to be sued work exactly the same for those advertising online?


Yes, hence the problem being raised by the article. Using targeted advertising on a protected class is illegal via Title VII.


I'm saying that one-gender-only job advertising is not a novelty that happened for the first time in Facebook.

As other commenter pointed out, how is this different from advertising in women/men magazine? Should we ban those as well? Sure, one can argue that their readers are only 98% one gender. But then some people on FB lie about their gender and some browse FB on somebody else's account. E.g. My GF never logs out off Facebook on shared devices and I see ads targeting women all the time.

All in all, we should look at bigger problem of targeted advertising rather exclusive loaded cases. I've no idea what targeted advertising line is "good enough". On the other hand, targeted advertising is definitely causing massive societal problems and political polarisation.




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