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It is so employers can have stats to ensure diversity in their employees.

Sad but true. Which begs the question, if they're inclusive of a certain race and gender, are they exclusive of others?

This whole agenda towards absolute equality in all aspects of life is ridiculous. Why settle for race and gender? Let's make sure we have equal amounts of people by eye and hair color, height, weight, or any other criteria. Doing anything less is surely discriminatory.

The secret is that discrimination is actually cool and encouraged / mandated as long as you do the right[1] kind of discrimination.

[1] as defined by the prevailing political zeitgeist

It sounds like you are unfamiliar with the concept of a protected class. Those characteristics that are protected by (US) law are generally the ones that companies focus on in this kind of data collection.

So rest assured, companies won't treat chin diameter the same way they treat race and gender in an imagined "agenda towards absolute equality in all aspects of life".

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