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A new reason to like IBM

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:54 am
by Gaven McLaren
I am searching for a new job and IBM has many jobs listed in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am amazed when on all of their posts I see this.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Read it carefully.

It says Gender identity or expression. Yeah IBM for being open minded. This is amazing from the company that once had the strictest dress code of any company.

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:14 pm
by Aeryn
you would still have to wear a blue blazer. :mrgreen:

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:45 pm
by Connie
you would still have to wear a blue blazer.
Just make sure the skirt isn't too short! :P

Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:48 am
by Carol Ann
Very nice statement by IBM, but I wonder if a guy shows up for work wearing a dress what the real policy is?. :-k

Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:35 pm
by Anita
Carol Ann wrote:Very nice statement by IBM, but I wonder if a guy shows up for work wearing a dress what the real policy is?. :-k
No, no, Carol Ann, bad girl! You can't do that! If you were going to wear a dress, you'd also have to have a wig, forms, makeup, and all the rest of it. And...you'd have to do it every day for the rest of your time there--no switching back and forth. Once a girl, always a girl.

I don't know that IBM specifically operates like this, but these were concerns that legislators had when California was trying to pass a law to protect TG people from employment discrimination.