Gender Bias in the Recruitment Process of IT Startups in the Netherlands
Publication date
2022-10-29
Authors
Šinik, Tea
Snippert, Joeri
Jansen, Slinger
Editors
Carroll, Noel
Nguyen-Duc, Anh
Wang, Xiaofeng
Stray, Viktoria
Advisors
Supervisors
Document Type
Part of book
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taverne
Abstract
In today’s fast-changing and innovative world, startups must compete amongst themselves and other well-established companies to hire the best talent in order to succeed. Diversity within the recruitment process is typically not a priority, even though it is well known that a diverse team is beneficial for (business) outcomes. Through a multiple case study performed at 5 IT startups based in the Netherlands, we observed that gender bias is introduced from the first moment that the need for an employee has been identified until candidate hiring. This is a direct result from (1) a lack of resources (e.g., time and money), (2) urgency to find the first and best candidate, or (3) the awareness of the startup founders.
Keywords
Diversity & Inclusion, Gender bias, IT Startup(s), Taverne, Management Information Systems, Control and Systems Engineering, Business and International Management, Information Systems, Modelling and Simulation, Information Systems and Management, SDG 5 - Gender Equality
Citation
Šinik, T, Snippert, J & Jansen, S 2022, Gender Bias in the Recruitment Process of IT Startups in the Netherlands. in N Carroll, A Nguyen-Duc, X Wang & V Stray (eds), Software Business : 13th International Conference, ICSOB 2022, Bolzano, Italy, November 8–11, 2022, Proceedings. 1 edn, vol. Cham, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 463 , Springer, pp. 328-334, 13th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2022, Bolzano, Italy, 8/11/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20706-8_23, conference