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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't is supposed to be that you are not precluded from being hired due to your race, background, age, etc if you are qualified? Not that you are automatically disqualified if you are white? Or old? Old is still a popular reason for discrimination.

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Older white women get discriminated against a lot in hiring. [/quote]

They do! I know more than a few older white women who essentially retired post 55/60 because of this. Professional educated women who just couldn't find a reasonable job. Not trying to be the director or big boss. Usually found some type of part time work for which their over qualification greatly benefited the position at the woman's financial sacrifice. [/quote]

I know a bunch of these people/situations at my place of work - educated white women who take lesser jobs because they actually care about the cause.  They paid for and put themselves through grad school, and want to make a difference, and need to earn a paycheck, but can only find part time positions. Often, the best and the brightest and most educated - they have a different take on having to prove themselves. (Ex: if people tend to make assumptions about them, or the POC in the office deem that the white woman is "rich", for whatever reason.)

Now, DEI has stepped in, and our department will only hire POC, and they are willing to train a give tangible, actual opportunities to only POC, not anyone else. Somehow, the white women are supposed to know things totally unrelated to their job, for no apparent reason - they are simply held to different (impossible) standards than POC.  Literally nothing is expected of POC, and some don't even do the little work that they are given.  It is a lawsuit waiting to happen, especially because they have gotten rid of the best, brightest, most hard working, and most dedicated to the cause, in the meantime.  The whole department is imploding, and the powers that be could not care less. POC say "cry me a river!", "Oppression!", "Reparations!", etc, but WTH is anyone to say that white women don't need jobs? Absurd. In my 40's, I am starting to pay attention, and see the blatant discrimination more and more. Don't expect help from other women, either. [/quote]

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