(02-27-2023, 01:14 PM)mikesez Wrote: The point, on the hiring end, is to make sure you are recruiting all of the qualified people from all minority groups.  And on the school end, to make sure that kids from minority groups that historically don't seek certain jobs know that there are opportunities in that field even if there aren't, at the moment, many people who look like them in that field yet.

But no one actually thinks you should lower your standards or pass over better candidates just to get a minority hire.