Why some job adverts put women off applying
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Re: Why some job adverts put women off applying
#2She says Textio taught her company to avoid terms such as "coding ninja" - a common phrase in Silicon Valley job ads.
This would also put me off applying for the role. It makes the company sound immature and anyone who calls themselves a coding ninja may not have great self assesment skills.
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#3As a UK license payer and general supporter of the BBC, these thinly-veiled advertising pieces (in this case for "Textio") always leave a bad taste in my mouth. Latching on to a worthy cause like feminism just makes it worse.
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#4"ads with lengthy bullet points detailing the role's responsibilities will face a drop-off in women applying for the job"
Maybe women just don't like too much responsibility or hard work? Maybe for that matter, no one does? Have they even checked what effect their proposed changes have on male applicants? For example "coding ninja" would surely also be off putting to many men.
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#5It's somehow funny to me that they refer to Textio's CEO as "Mr Snyder", when she at least according to the company's Team page[1] seems to self-identify as female. Amazing what a one-letter typo can do.
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#6"ads with lengthy bullet points detailing the role's responsibilities will face a drop-off in women applying for the job" Maybe women just don't like too much responsibility or hard work? Maybe for that matter, no one does? Have they even checked what effect their proposed changes have on male applicants? For example "coding ninja" would surely also be off putting to many men.
Wasn't there a study concluding that women tend to under-estimate their skills and men the opposite? If we assume that to be true, a long list of responsibilities is more likely to put off women because they don't think they can cover everything (or enough of it).
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#7When the job ads make a big deal about diversity, especially when I know they have a male dominated workforce, I know they are going to do anything to hire a woman and I don't bother applying.
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#8Replacing uncounscious bias, with conscious bias based on words that take into account both the employer and the canditate prejudices towards some words is a crazy tricky line of thought.
To me it seems there's a problem, let's add an aditional layer of complexity to make it more intentional and less visible. The end result is that adverts get even more filled with prejudice.
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#9"ads with lengthy bullet points detailing the role's responsibilities will face a drop-off in women applying for the job" Maybe women just don't like too much responsibility or hard work? Maybe for that matter, no one does? Have they even checked what effect their proposed changes have on male applicants? For example "coding ninja" would surely also be off putting to many men.
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#10I would like to see the scientific evidence of this unconscious bias they are referring to. Im also skeptical of the claims that gender diversity alone will boost revenue 41%. That is a extremely bold claim.