Yeah, that's a tough one. After all, notwithstanding the fact that "the race is not to the swift," that is the way people want to bet 'em . . .But if you can get a hearing, you will have the advantage of helping the company meet affirmative action goals.
>But if you can get a hearing, you will have the advantage of helping the company meet affirmative action goals.<
I can quite honestly say that I have never benefitted from affirmative action. I also have absolute evidence of discrimination in the 1970s [when a company hires a guy with 6 weeks of post college experience, and you had a degree and 3+ years with the kind of instrumentation they used, it is discrimination], but I knew and know better than to squawk. You just go on to the next.
I've seen women who did benefit, who had no business in the positions they held, but I was never one of them. I've always pulled my own weight, and then some. The truth is, a lot of women still have to be a lot better than the men considered for the same openings.
I just spent 6 years in a technical job supervised by a man whose job was created for him by his buddies when he was about to lose his job after a merger. He didn't have a technical degree (I do), he had 10 years less experience than I did, but he earned 30% more than me "supervising" me, which seemed largely to consist of time on the phone chatting up the work "we" did.
When he started, he refused a key to the building because he said he did not want to be called in for emergency work on weekends. I had long since requested and carried such a key with the stated reason of being able to get such work done. Big attitude difference, huh? [and gag, he was a liberal, too, a noisy one]
Don't kid yourself that unfairness does not exist, because your wife, your daughter, your granddaughter could find herself exactly in such positions.