How to Reduce Gender Bias in Your Hiring Process

Picture a typical CEO. How would you describe them? Smart, organised, ambitious, a good leader, well-dressed, holding a mobile phone, in a rush…? Did you happen to think of a man or a woman? It’s no coincidence if you thought about a male CEO, as this comes pretty close to reality. According to Fortune 500, the annual list of 500 United States companies with the highest revenue, the 2017 ranking includes only 32 female CEOs. And that’s just one of many examples of a gender gap in the workplace. What’s more, a substantial proportion of the fast-growing and promising future jobs, like web developer or mathematician, are occupied mostly by men (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017). Should women be concerned about their position in the labour market? Searching for evidence of gender bias in hiring In 2014, Amanda J. Koch, Susan