To not like equal opportunity questions on job applications?

[malificent7]

I resent having to disclose my personal details and wonder if I said I was a transgender bisexual disabled bipolar Muslim if my application would get binned.

I don't trust the motives behind it...am I paranoid?

I think it’s outrageous to differentiate everyone on those particular things

I guess you think it's also outrageous that society discriminates on those particular things as well?

I mean they could also add other things that society discriminates on.

Its records for the company so they can show how many people of what age/race/ethnicity applies to the company.

A place I worked had a positive discrimination going on, with the manager proclaiming on a mans first day "thank god your here. I need a black man" so it happens but just answer them if it bothers you op.

The questions are same at application stage, rather than job offer/start stage, so that diversity monitoring can examine the success and weakness of the advertising and recruitment strategy from cradle to grave. Are some groups particularity underrepresented in applications? Could it be that advertising is not targeted in appropriate places? Does abs particular group get a lot of interviews, but few job offers? Or accept the offers? Or leave quickly?

Diversity monitoring goes deeper than who works for an organisation, it’s also about who doesn’t.

I don't like them either and don't see why they're included. Where possible I put 'other' or prefer not to say

The data are generally used after the hiring process has taken place in aggregate to see whether there is any evidence of unconscious bias in the hiring process to see what can be done to make it fairer: the more information the hiring firm has the fairer they can try to make the process. But you are always feee to say prefer not to say.....