Ashwini Deshpande on Gender and Caste Discrimination and Affirmative Action in India
Ideas of India
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How Cast Discrimination Affects Productivity
In cast discrimination, there's an element where the prejudice or the discrimination affects productivity. Employers can turn around and say we don't have enough girls who are scientifically trained. So effort goes down because you know that you're not going to be rewarded for that effort. And i find aro's statistical discrimination theory really powerful here in terms of explaining how a cultural ethos effects choice is an outcome atat much early on in the pipe line.
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