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“It’s rough out there for white men,” reads the subject line of one recent
Reddit post.

“Anyone else witnessed an industry-wide hiring freeze on ‘straight white guys’?” asks another poster, explaining that his friend had just been told by a recruiter: “Agencies just aren’t hiring people like you at the moment”.

A growing number of men feel that strict diversity policies aimed at
creating a level playing field are instead pushing them out.

The sentiment was expressed by former Tesco chief John Allan, who claimed
white men were becoming an “endangered species” in British boardrooms in 2017.

When Amanda Blanc, the chief executive of Aviva, told MPs this week that
the appointment of all senior white male recruits must get final sign-off
from her as part of a drive to stamp out sexism in finance, frustrated male workers saw red.

“This is extreme wokery,” one City bank chief argues.

“It is ridiculous,” another veteran investment boss adds. “White is a broad
reference – there’s social background [which should also be considered].”

A third high-profile City chief agrees that Aviva’s policy is “unhelpful” because the “assumption seems to be that all white males have some form of advantage that needs to be neutralised. There are a lot of white males who
come from very poor backgrounds”.

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<https://finance.yahoo.com/news/diversity-policies-attacked-dominance-white-060000432.html>

<https://archive.ph/EAIKZ>

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