Men's Rights Movement

[Rev. Rye]

Actually, it’s closer to 50/40.

In the gender experiment, female employers were much more likely to hire women than male employers were. When a woman was making the decision, women were hired 50 percent of the time, yet when a male employer was making the call, women had only a 40 percent chance of getting hired. This was true with the birth month groups, too: Even-month employers were much more likely to hire even-month workers than odd-month employers were. In fact, when birth month was the consideration, rather than gender, the difference was even bigger, with odd-month employers hiring even-month workers only 30 percent of the time.

Clearly, sharing the same social identity can have an impact on hiring choices.

“It seems to be the case that all employer types, on average, are willing to engage in discrimination against members of the lower-performing group,” the paper says. “But the extent of this discrimination is reduced when the employer shares a known demographic characteristic with the lower-performing group.”

Feel free to search for that section in the link. Sounds like a 25% increase in success rate to me.

And I’m not disagreeing that male privilege is a thing, just so we’re clear. I just think sometimes, the effects of it can be due to a lot of factors in addition to privilege (which clearly doesn’t help matters) that are even harder to overcome than prejudice (and often even more absurd.) And I do think to ignore those other factors that cause the problem may very well be a hindrance to change.

Remember House? A lot of the patients on the show had what looked like more common diseases that didn’t respond to treatment, often because they were more unusual. If a doctor decides to treat a disease when the patient is suffering from a different one than the remedy is designed to treat, that patient isn’t likely to get better anytime soon. And I strongly suspect in cases like this, we got a lot of diseases to treat. We don’t keep an eye on them, we might just lose the patient. And remember to bring your Vicodin.