"By forcing the argument back to earlier in development, Breda and Hillion's results demonstrating that women are not discriminated against in exam scoring and, in fact are advantaged … suggest that hiring-point policies such as mandating gender sensitivity training for members of hiring committees, or a certain portion of members must be women are missing the point," he writes.
The inspector general also found no e-mails, documents or testimony indicating that hiring committees improperly considered politics.
Increasingly, however, hiring committees believe that a talented executive from one industry can also deliver top performance in another.
You were a class parent, a fund-raiser, on the hiring committees for the school district, you worked at church, you're still a vibrant person.
Among the authors' best pieces of advice is that companies should ape academe and form hiring committees to vet candidates and make offers.
It is essential that hiring committees consider candidates on equal terms if they are to avoid putting women immediately on the back foot through unconscious choices.
He paints a picture of liberal scholars disparaging conservative research, of tenure and hiring committees looking askance at right-leaning colleagues.
As a member of many hiring committees, I have passed over hundreds of applications from people possessing master's degrees and Ph.D.'s.
He wrote that their efforts, including insulating hiring committees from interference by political appointees, "have improved the atmosphere and professional culture within the voting section considerably over the past several years".
Moving into senior management becomes particularly hard, partly because of discrimination by bosses and hiring committees, who reject candidates they think may be away a lot, and partly because many high-level jobs are hard to combine with serial leave-taking.
One study found that a commitment by hiring committees to shortlists with at least 25% women helped to remove anti-woman bias.Over time, advocates of quotas hope that a sudden large increase in the number of women in leadership will change attitudes.
