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04/03/2016

Tech Companies are falling in female hiring numbers | Applicant Tracking System | Blog

TECH COMPANIES ARE FALLING IN FEMALE HIRING NUMBERS October 29, 2015 Mukul Agarwal

Gender Ratio of Employees in Leading Tech Companies

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04/03/2016

Tech Companies are falling in female hiring numbers | Applicant Tracking System | Blog

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 OECD’s science test, more boys consider a STEM career than girls. (STEM – Science, Technology,

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Tech Companies are falling in female hiring numbers | Applicant Tracking System | Blog

Engineering & Mathematics). From an early age, favoritism shown towards boys being better at STEM subjects has been discouraging girls from opting this career.

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. In­group 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 start­up where a group of male friends have agreed to hire another male over female candidate.

4. Work culture problem According to a report on Talent & Innovation, 52% of employees (in management or higher authorities) know that women are being paid less in their organisation than men for doing the same job, but still not have taken any action to improve it. This leads to another factor, where among employees who got a job with STEM skills, 45% of women have left the job within a year. Possible reasons include – hostile macho culture, isolation, salary and opportunity biasing.

TECH LEADERSHIP ROLES HELD ACROSS THE WORLD

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WHAT CAN BE DONE? There are few Not­for­Profit organisations, who are helping young students across the world to hone their skills. Some of them namely are

CoderDojo: It is a network of free volunteer­led computer programming clubs for young people aged 7 to 17.

Girls who Code: It is a US based organisation that runs summer programs teaching programming skills to high school girls.

Girls in Tech: It is a global network of groups that aims to boost the visibility of women in tech jobs by hosting events and providing employment resources.

Applicant Tracking System is a tool that falls into Technology (T) of STEM skills. This is anopen source recruitment management platform that helps new HRs and recruiters (who have just taken a professional responsibility in an organisation) to manage their job in most easy and convenient manner. We run on the motto of : improving professional skills, challenging negative stereotypes and strengthen networking.

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