Lets not go in the direction of semantics - discrimination used in this context has a clear meaning - penalizing a protected group. To hire folks that can be friends with the quorum, means excluding folks who can't. If systematically applied, it probably means excluding entire ethnic, economic or social classes.
Ageism isn't a problem where you work - that's great. Nice upper-class educated people are doing well too - Iranian and Russian immigrants are generally like that.
Assuming the women applicants are identically distributed as the men's (a huge assumption) then those statistics matching is a good sign. If we ignore that 50% of people are women I guess, and only 15% of applicants are. So many women leave our industry (don't know what industry your company is in) the applicant pool is already selected for those who can hack the bro culture. It takes 'affirmative action' to get real parity there.
Hiring is hard, and I understand its an onus on the company to make efforts to find qualified minority candidates. But its also a reason to make an effort. Because there is a pool of overlooked candidates out there, who are not showing up in your middle-class neighborhood with resume in hand.
Lets not go in the direction of semantics - discrimination used in this context has a clear meaning - penalizing a protected group. To hire folks that can be friends with the quorum, means excluding folks who can't. If systematically applied, it probably means excluding entire ethnic, economic or social classes.
Ageism isn't a problem where you work - that's great. Nice upper-class educated people are doing well too - Iranian and Russian immigrants are generally like that.
Assuming the women applicants are identically distributed as the men's (a huge assumption) then those statistics matching is a good sign. If we ignore that 50% of people are women I guess, and only 15% of applicants are. So many women leave our industry (don't know what industry your company is in) the applicant pool is already selected for those who can hack the bro culture. It takes 'affirmative action' to get real parity there.
Hiring is hard, and I understand its an onus on the company to make efforts to find qualified minority candidates. But its also a reason to make an effort. Because there is a pool of overlooked candidates out there, who are not showing up in your middle-class neighborhood with resume in hand.
Anyway, good luck!