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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by kat on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:11PM (#18187953)
"Untapped market of engineers" yes it exists. The majority of my female friends with STEM degrees ended up as high school teachers. I had several older people suggest to me that teaching should be my preferred career choice because it was more flexible than a programming job (wtf...)

"every tech company would be taking advantage of it" - nope, no one is. I don't know why but my guess is its hard to admit you're doing hiring wrong, hard to hire people who think differently than you, etc.

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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by totony on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:11PM (#18190049)
To note, there are more women than men in high school teaching positions, so what you're seeing might not be that STEM has a bias against women but that teaching has a bias for women (or any other out of a very big set of possible conclusions)

see: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=EAG_PERS_SHARE...

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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by jhfhhhf on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:21PM (#18188016)
Maybe being a high school teacher is simply more pleasant than working in tech to some people? I don't think your example shows there is an untapped talent pool.

Of course, in general, you can make a job more attractive (raise salaries, roll out red carpets, install slides...), and you will attract more people. That doesn't prove those people were an untapped talent pool.

Presumably there is a price that would make a high school teacher consider working in tech again. That doesn't imply companies should be willing to pay that price.

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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by beat on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:32PM (#18188134)
So why are the "some people" more often female than male?

I keep seeing all these explanations that are just begging the question.

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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by hamandcheese on Thursday October 11, 2018 @12:47AM (#18191023)
Why did they choose being a high school teacher?

Are there specifics about hiring processes in tech that bias against or scare away female candidates?

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