Similarly, don't give the job to less qualified people to meet a quota, fix the part of the system that limits production of the most qualified people to those of some specific ethnic / social / gender makeup.
Particularly with firefighters, I absolutely don't want any question that the person in charge of putting out the fire at my house is there because they needed a latino lesbian who grew up poor and not because she was the best person for the job.
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Date: 2009-06-30 04:01 pm (UTC)Similarly, don't give the job to less qualified people to meet a quota, fix the part of the system that limits production of the most qualified people to those of some specific ethnic / social / gender makeup.
Particularly with firefighters, I absolutely don't want any question that the person in charge of putting out the fire at my house is there because they needed a latino lesbian who grew up poor and not because she was the best person for the job.