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I want to hire the best candidates I could care less what race/sex they are.  All I know is I have to make sure I recommend at least one woman and one minority for our new class every year instead of the top 10 candidates.  Its BS   [/quote]
How are you defining best? That's what it ultimately comes down to.

My experience as an engineer and hiring manager is that women tend to come to the table with less technical experience/expertise for a variety of reasons, but it's still pretty easy to spot which ones have potential. They do tend to be much more focused on producing usable technology, and that tends to make them more productive from the get-go despite maybe having to learn more skills in the beginning. Most men I've worked with don't start to understand how to make their technical work useful until they've been working much longer. It's a good indication that the criteria of "best" is not sufficient to produce good results.

An example is that a few years ago my DH went to bat for a woman candidate who impressed him based not on her technical merits (which were strong but not the "best") but on how much she had accomplished as a PhD student despite some obvious lack of support and resources. She did have a rocky start for about a year, but now she is consistently one of his best junior engineers. He knows projects that go to her will get done, which is much more valuable than the Harvard PhD that he ultimately had to demote because he was always pinning the blame for failed projects on others and refusing to hold himself accountable when projects he was leading did not complete.[/quote]

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