Job Applicant Resumes Are Effectively Impossible to De-Gender
https://www.unite.ai/job-applicant-resumes-are-effectively-impossible-to-de-gender-ai-researchers-find/?utm_campaign=Recruiting%20Brainfood&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletterASSESSMENT
Issue #280
20 Feb 2022
Even in the worst-performing results where a résumé has been so severely stripped of gender-identifying information as to be non-usable, a simple NLP model such as Word2Vec is still capable of an accurate gender identification approaching 70%.
The question of whether more or less candidate data is best method of mitigating bias might have an answer with this research from NYU