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New Research Finds Altering Language of Job Descriptions May Not Help Organizations Address Diversity Issues

  • 1.  New Research Finds Altering Language of Job Descriptions May Not Help Organizations Address Diversity Issues

    Posted 04-12-2023 12:57

    BALTIMORE, MD, April 12, 2023 – It looks like the "best practice" of removing gendered language from job listings may simply have been a "best guess" by managers seeking to increase diversity of applicant pools for their organizations. New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that tweaking the language of job postings to make them more gender-neutral has negligible practical effects on men's and women's likelihood of applying for jobs.

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