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Poll: Minorities, how often are you discriminated against in your career?

7 points by solipsist on March 22, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments

And more importantly, what can other people do to help counteract this discrimination? A lot of discrimination is done subconsciously, so how can we get rid of this nature that we inherit?

This poll was inspired by this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2349477

		Never (race)
		10 points
		Never (sexual orientation)
		8 points
		Never (gender)
		5 points
		Sometimes (age)
		4 points
		Often (gender)
		3 points
		Rarely (age)
		3 points
		Rarely (race)
		2 points
		Sometimes (sexual orientation)
		2 points
		Often (age)
		2 points
		Never (age)
		2 points
		Sometimes (gender)
		1 point
		Often (race)
		0 points
		Sometimes (race)
		0 points
		Rarely (gender)
		0 points
		Often (sexual orientation)
		0 points
		Rarely (sexual orientation)
		0 points
		Other (please explain if you're willing to)
		0 points

MacDaddy on March 22, 2011 | [–]

There's no upside for a minority to answer this question. Simply makes them a bigger target. Not complicated to not discriminate if one chooses. Gotta choose though.

mpcovcd on March 22, 2011 | | [–]

What about age?

zengr on March 22, 2011 | | [–]

Hell yeah! I feel that should be on the top!

F00b4r on March 22, 2011 | | | [–]

+1. esp in finance

DjDarkman on March 22, 2011 | | [–]

What about nationality?

sayanee on March 22, 2011 | [–]

never (age/race)

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