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Originally Posted by mercurialbliss  A company can't ask me if my monthly cycle will keep me from performing my duties or when I plan to start a family. The only reason companies do this is because they can. It's not discriminatory in the sense of race, gender, age or anything similar but it is invasive nonetheless. |
I think we may be on the same page here. I agree that it's discriminatory, but companies discriminate in all kinds of ways, other than those that are expressly prohibited (e.g. the menstruation question you hypothesized). People lose jobs because of bad credit checks, but they also lose jobs for typos in their CV's, dressing badly, saying stupid things in interviews, being unattractive, going to the wrong school, or catching the hiring manager on a bad day. None of those things are necessarily less arbitrary than a credit bureau.