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Metal_DK posted...

The hiring process of any job, for any person, is kinda discrimination already so it doesn't surprise me if people in general no matter what race/age/gender/etc think they are being discriminated against.

Here's a fun bit of music history:

For a very long time, orchestras had very few women in them. This wasn't due to any lack of musical skill - anyone who's heard Rachel Barton Pine or Jacqueline du Pr (or who's ever heard the tragic history of Clara Wieck Schumann) knows that women can perform music as well as any man. Now of course there were social forces at work prior to the 20th century that explained why female musicians rarely performed in public, but even well into the 1900s there just weren't very many women in high-profile positions (especially the big-name orchestras of the world).

Then, a few decades ago, orchestras started implementing blind auditions - wherein the judges sit behind a curtain or screen so that they can't see the musician auditioning but they can hear them play. As an added measure, these blind auditions usually take place in carpeted rooms (so that it's harder to determine what kind of shoes the musician is wearing based on the sound of their footsteps).

The result of this? Dramatically higher rates of women playing in orchestras. The current theory is that most of the audition judges were men, and they (consciously or subconsciously) favored auditions played by men while thinking less of auditions played by women. Once the judges could no longer easily determine what music was being played by whom, the gender gap essentially disappeared (because there's no inherent talent gap between the sexes).
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