• owatnext@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Prefer not to say” is counted as Male.

    Wow that’s interesting! How did you find that out?

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      1 year ago

      My wife has worked HR roles in government agencies, though I don’t think this information is any secret. They need to know for diversity reasons, so they need to default it to the “least diverse” option. Same with prefer not to say for race defaulting to white.