TECH COMPANIES ARE FALLING IN FEMALE HIRING NUMBERS (1)

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FASTCOLLAB

• TECH COMPANIES ARE FALLING IN FEMALE HIRING
  NUMBERS

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• WHY SUCH BIASING?
• According to researchers who are studying
  organisation culture of top tech companies across
  the world. They have mentioned these 4 main
  reasons for less female hires.
• 1. Gender Stereotypes
• According to the OECD (Organisation for Economic
  Cooperation Development), despite similar
  performances in the OECDs science test, more
  boys consider a STEM career than girls. (STEM
  Science, Technology, Engineering Mathematics).
  From an early age, favoritism shown towards boys
  being better at STEM subjects has been
  discouraging girls from opting this career.

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• 2. Lack of talent pool
• The talent pool availability of female candidates
  carrying sufficient STEM skills is very limited.
  Moreover, this small sized talent pool is not
  encouraged enough to improve on their skills.
  This means that employers have a gender biased
  talent pool to recruit from.
• 3. In-group favouritism
• According to a study in the American Sociological
  Review, hiring managers tend to recruit those who
  are culturally similar to themselves (i.e. with
  the same tastes, hobbies, experiences). This
  observation holds true when it comes to hiring in
  a tech start-up where a group of male friends
  have agreed to hire another male over female
  candidate.

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