Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap...
by mpweiher on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:03PM
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What evidence do you have for this?
What I have read is that the "hiring a lab manager" experiments actually only found an effect for candidates that were (a) mediocre and (b) identically qualified. For exceptional candidates, they did not find bias. If there was a clearly better candidate they did not find bias.
Furthermore, the most commonly cited study on this was hiring for a position in a Psychology department. A discipline that is majority female. Other studies have shown that grading tends to be biased towards the gender that is less well represented in a particular field.
And of course there's the Ceci-Williams study that showed a 2:1 advantage for women in STEM tenure track hiring.
What I have read is that the "hiring a lab manager" experiments actually only found an effect for candidates that were (a) mediocre and (b) identically qualified. For exceptional candidates, they did not find bias. If there was a clearly better candidate they did not find bias.
Furthermore, the most commonly cited study on this was hiring for a position in a Psychology department. A discipline that is majority female. Other studies have shown that grading tends to be biased towards the gender that is less well represented in a particular field.
And of course there's the Ceci-Williams study that showed a 2:1 advantage for women in STEM tenure track hiring.