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How Technology Companies Alienate Women During Recruitment
The problem isn’t just the pipeline. Companies struggle to attract women through bad recruiting practices.
New research suggests that how technology companies recruit candidates during on-campus information sessions might play a role in dissuading women from the jobs.
Researchers Shelley Correll, a professor by courtesy at Stanford Graduate School of Business and head of Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and Alison Wynn, a postdoctoral researcher at the institute, focused their attention on these job information sessions to see how recruiters engage prospective employees on a West Coast college campus. The researchers sent a team of observers to 84 sessions where 66 companies recruited for technical roles, mainly as entry-level engineers.