Talent track: Can technology help reduce gender bias in hiring?

Many companies are on a high visibility campaign to recruit more women in line with their gender diversity policy. TCS, for instance, has recently announced the initiative ‘Rebegin’ to attract women with work experience to rejoin after a break. Similarly, several tech companies such as Dell, Microsoft, Accenture and IBM have been wooing women with experience to return to work. At the same time, there is a concern that when women apply for jobs there is an unconscious bias towards women which blocks their entry into the workforce. The entire traditional recruitment process starting with job descriptions, screening, interviewing and selection of the candidates is often biased by traditional mindsets specially towards women.