Data Important in Closing Tech Gender Gap, Harvard Behavioralist Tells Rosenworcel Podcast
Tech companies need more data on employee promotions to help close the gender gap, said a behavioral scientist in Q&A with FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel. Many companies can't recreate performance appraisal or promotion data for the past five years because…
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“they just haven't collected it in any systematic way,” said Iris Bohnet, Harvard University’s Women and Public Policy Program co-director. “We just have not been focusing on our employees' data with the same kind of scrutiny that we might have focused on our customers' data,” said Bohnet, nor have companies “applied the same rigor” in human resources departments as in engineering and finance departments. Measuring outcomes of hiring algorithms and focusing on systems, not just diversity training, while “blinding” names on resumes can be effective, the professor told Rosenworcel's Tuesday podcast, publicized Wednesday.