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Unconscious bias is keeping women out of senior roles, but we can get around it

  • Written by Melissa Wheeler, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
imageGood luck getting a job if you don’t share the same characteristics as the person hiring you.shutterstock

Most people would not consciously decide to hire candidates based on whether they remind them of themselves. But one unconscious bias – affinity bias – may lead people to favour candidates who are like themselves, research...

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