7 Ways to Reduce Bias in the Hiring Process and Elsewhere

Too often in decisions that define careers, decision-makers have full license to “follow their gut.” As long as this continues, we will never eliminate workplace gender inequality. The reality is this: Most organizations—even the most well-intentioned—operate with an implicit tolerance for gender stereotypes and their associated status beliefs. As such, it’s unsurprising that personnel decisions follow suit. These critical decisions are made by in a context of structural discrimination, usually with vague, ambiguous, or subjective criteria, and without any checks on...