Question: we are a neuroengineering lab and we want to hire women and other non-men. We want to make a job ad, and are aware we cant put "we are preferentially hiring women" on it bc reverse employment discrimination, but im having trouble finding guidelines about the limits of what we can say publicly. I am positive someone has made resources like this, but with the demise of search can only find like corporate HR cover-your-ass material, can anyone help me out? Ive only navigated this in housing coops and I assume employment is different.
edit: thank you all for the very helpful advice, i am feeling a little too exhausted from the day to engage in any meaningful conversation right now so take this heart as my thanks ❤️
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@jonny Disclaimer: I do not have an answer that is *specific to* this situation, so I'm drawing from general 'community management' practices here.
Going off the general question of "what attracts the intended target demographic", if I had to do this, I would probably focus as much as legally allowed on "here is what accommodations and safeguards we provide [that are of unspoken specific interest to these people, and likely to scare off toxic dudes]".
It doesn't *prevent* anyone from applying (so I expect that it wouldn't run afoul of legislation, but I am not a lawyer), but it does clearly communicate that there is a culture which is friendly towards the intended demographic, and hostile towards the "discrimination doesn't exist" folk, which is likely to include most men, which results in self-selection.
