One very interesting finding of the study is that woman and men are faring equally once the attrition is removed. It seemed to me that the natural conclusion w

One very interesting finding of the study is that woman and men are faring equally once the attrition is removed. It seemed to me that the natural conclusion was that woman have lower confidence and thus performed worse at interviews. And this is a deep realization for me, because it pushes me in the direction of current diversity policies. You see, if there is perceived bias against you, then you lose confidence. So we must, for a while, try our best to remove that perfection. That might mean hiring more woman even if they don't seem to perform as well as men, because, once we have done that for a while, woman will feel more confident and the good candidates will appear. In any case - whether my last paragraph makes sense or not - the conclusion of the experiment interviewing.io did is that only removing gender perception during the interview process isn't enough, for woman may already have been affected by the bias and thus will perform worse than men during the interview. So we come back to the conclusion that we must invest to bring woman to tech early - during college or even high school - and fight biases there. It's a long road anyway, isn't it?