Ask HN: Company only considering female candidates for role. Is this legal?
Not trying to start a flame war. Genuinely trying to explore if this is normal, or legal. Sorry for the throwaway, but this is a sensitive topic.<p>The leadership of a large tech company I work with openly stated internally that they will only consider female candidates for a particular new executive-level role, to promote diversity. No male candidates would be considered.<p>After over half a year of searching, they were unable to find a female candidate who had the qualifications, experience, and skills at the level of billion-dollar multi national companies, who also wanted to relocate during a pandemic.<p>Eventually the company expanded the search to all candidates, regardless of gender. After many months later, the company found a qualified candidate for the role, and hired them. This candidate was a white man, and it was brought up at several company-wide meetings about how hard the company tried to only hire a woman, but was unable to get a qualified candidate.<p>Is this the new normal at tech companies? Is this even legal?