Is gender bias really impacting the hiring of women in STEM?
"Gender bias does not exist anymore, and even if it does it has no bearing on the hiring and recruitment decisions." I hear this a lot during my work as a diversity and inclusivity consultant, and as the founder of the research think-tank The 50 Percent Project. A recent research study, published inA new study by a UBC psychologist, Toni Schmader, and researchers in France reveals that hiring committees who denied it is a problem were less likely to promote women.
The researchers measure this using an Implicit Association Test that was developed at Harvard. There have been concerns about how accurate these test results are, and whether this test really measures implicit and unconscious biases. However, this test is popular and effective in giving a sense of the implicit associations we might carry. In the test, words flash on a computer screen and measurements are made of how quickly participants are able to assign those words to a particular category.
It was most interesting to see the correlation between these implicit beliefs and the actual hiring outcomes. The researchers found that the the committees that were more aware of the barriers that women face were more likely, and keen, to overcome their implicit associations that science is predominantly a male domain, when selecting candidates for the job.
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