Actually, I don't think so. There is a baseline of physical strength, conditioning, and endurance required to safely and effectively do the job. These are bonafide occupational qualifications, as the legal terminology goes. Not everyone is tough enough to be a firefighter. However, among those that are, I don't care what they look like or who they fuck in their spare time. I care that they'll bail my ass out of a fire if I need it.
Simply being able to say whether or not someone is a good manager (in the speaker's opinion, no less) does not mean they themselves would be a good manager. The big problem with trying to fairly hire managers is that privilege is at work bigtime. People listen to those they perceive are like them, and well, race and gender are obvious.
Nobody in this thread is saying a quota system is perfect, or that it means the absolute best person will be hired 100% of the time. It's a flawed system, but arguably less flawed than the good ol' boy system it's replacing.
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Date: 2009-06-30 07:21 pm (UTC)Simply being able to say whether or not someone is a good manager (in the speaker's opinion, no less) does not mean they themselves would be a good manager. The big problem with trying to fairly hire managers is that privilege is at work bigtime. People listen to those they perceive are like them, and well, race and gender are obvious.
Nobody in this thread is saying a quota system is perfect, or that it means the absolute best person will be hired 100% of the time. It's a flawed system, but arguably less flawed than the good ol' boy system it's replacing.