Job Interviews Without Gender
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 9:49 am
NY Times - 1/6/2018 - Katharine Zaleski - I am a co-founder of a start-up that helps companies with their efforts to hire more women. In the fall, in meetings with potential clients in the San Francisco Bay Area, I became aware of a dangerous trend: Employers are turning to techniques that “mask” the gender of the candidates they interview — removing names from résumés and altering voices on phone calls, for example — with the hope that this will offer a quick fix to diversity failures. Read more @ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opin ... ender.html