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I don't think she has. Discrimination is the act of discriminating.
There's no law against thinking or preferences, only the act of
performing it. As long as once a resume was in her hands he treated
it equally with the others, what law has she broken?
--- Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > Actualy, I don't see that as discrimination. What has she done
> wrong?
> > She has a preference. She can prefer anyhthing she wants. She can
> > even proactively recruit what she prefers. However, as long as
> she
> > treats all resumes eqaualy when they are infront of her, she's
> done
> > nothing wrong.
>
> Your reasoning sounds logical but in fact it is wrong. The manager
> who
> said that, and the company they work for, could be sued for such a
> statement, as it violates sex discrimination laws.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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