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From: zubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Discrimination
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Date: Sun, 2-Jun-85 13:00:53 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  2 13:00:53 1985
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> 	So back to my original question - should equally qualified people
> be promoted on the toss of the coin or on sex? I doubt that equally
> qualified people were chosen on the toss of the coin before.  So what
> criteria would you use to discriminate between two equally qualified
> people? 
> 
> Sharon Badian	ihnp4!mtgzz!seb

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Given the necessity to distinguish for promotion between two equally
qualified candidates one male and the other female I would have to
suggest studying the work record of each with an eye out for any factors which
could sway the balance. If no imbalance results from such a study 
then perhap a parallel trial situation could be arranged in which each 
candidate would be competeing against a deadline and the other each with 
full knowledge of the whole situation. 

Considering the stress of such a setup the best person for the promotion
would be the individual who :

	a) succesfully completes the assignment
	b) copes with the additional stressses involved by not
		allowing them to visibly effect work or performance.

This ** trial by fire ** concept might not make friends and influence
people but it certainly would produce workers capable of working under
stress.

jeanette l. zobjeck
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