I live in Japan and what is considered racist/discrimination/sexism or not here is different than somewhere else. For example, it's totally fine to refuse to rent an apartment because you're a foreigner.
They would tell right to your face: "no foreigner", not even something they don't say and we all pretend this is not the reason ...
Another one would be refusing to employ a woman because "she can get pregnant" even though this one is changing these days. They don't outright say it anymore so I guess we are going forward, slowly.
Well I'm sure that Japan is not unique, all over the world if people want to discriminate then they will find an excuse, or maybe they don't even try to conceal it. But what matters is if a country has laws and enforcement in place, for instance giving you the ability to file a complaint somewhere. Are there no laws in Japan that prohibit discrimination against women for the reasons you mention? Or maybe the laws are there but the enforcement is weak.
By the way, part of the solution (or the job applications) would be if people can do the first part of their application anonymously, so without having to mention their age, name (which often gives away ethnicity), gender etc in their resume, and after that a skills based "blind test". If the outcome of those two things (resume and test) are (very) positive then a company would need a very convincing story to subsequently reject a candidate during the rest of the process.
I understand that this is not always possible, but IT/development is an area where it might work. Maybe people will call this not realistic but in our age of increasing focus on 'inclusiveness' there may be a point when applicants or society in general start demanding this kind of thing.
For the question asked to woman, I believe it is forbidden now so that's why they stopped openly saying it.
I always thought that if I can have employees, I would implement an anonymized resume review system so managers would not be tempted.
Of course, that does not solve the issue after the face-to-face meeting but still, it would be a start.
Exactly ... I read yesterday that there's a party in the UK (they have elections coming in December) that advocates anonymized job applications, exactly what I was thinking ...
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I live in Japan and what is considered racist/discrimination/sexism or not here is different than somewhere else. For example, it's totally fine to refuse to rent an apartment because you're a foreigner.
They would tell right to your face: "no foreigner", not even something they don't say and we all pretend this is not the reason ...
Another one would be refusing to employ a woman because "she can get pregnant" even though this one is changing these days. They don't outright say it anymore so I guess we are going forward, slowly.
Well I'm sure that Japan is not unique, all over the world if people want to discriminate then they will find an excuse, or maybe they don't even try to conceal it. But what matters is if a country has laws and enforcement in place, for instance giving you the ability to file a complaint somewhere. Are there no laws in Japan that prohibit discrimination against women for the reasons you mention? Or maybe the laws are there but the enforcement is weak.
By the way, part of the solution (or the job applications) would be if people can do the first part of their application anonymously, so without having to mention their age, name (which often gives away ethnicity), gender etc in their resume, and after that a skills based "blind test". If the outcome of those two things (resume and test) are (very) positive then a company would need a very convincing story to subsequently reject a candidate during the rest of the process.
I understand that this is not always possible, but IT/development is an area where it might work. Maybe people will call this not realistic but in our age of increasing focus on 'inclusiveness' there may be a point when applicants or society in general start demanding this kind of thing.
For the question asked to woman, I believe it is forbidden now so that's why they stopped openly saying it.
I always thought that if I can have employees, I would implement an anonymized resume review system so managers would not be tempted.
Of course, that does not solve the issue after the face-to-face meeting but still, it would be a start.
Exactly ... I read yesterday that there's a party in the UK (they have elections coming in December) that advocates anonymized job applications, exactly what I was thinking ...