Gender Bias in the Recruitment Process of IT Startups in the Netherlands

Tea Šinik; Joeri Snippert; Slinger Jansen

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20706-8_23

Gender Bias in the Recruitment Process of IT Startups in the Netherlands

Tea Šinik, Joeri Snippert^*, Slinger Jansen^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Utrecht University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Software Business
Subtitle of host publication	13th International Conference, ICSOB 2022, Bolzano, Italy, November 8–11, 2022, Proceedings
Editors	Noel Carroll, Anh Nguyen-Duc, Xiaofeng Wang, Viktoria Stray
Publisher	Springer
Pages	328-334
Number of pages	7
Volume	Cham
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-20706-8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-20705-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20706-8_23
Publication status	Published - 29 Oct 2022
Event	13th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2022 - Bolzano, Italy Duration: 8 Nov 2022 → 11 Nov 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Publisher	Springer
Volume	463
ISSN (Print)	1865-1348
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-1356

Conference

Conference	13th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2022
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Bolzano
Period	8/11/22 → 11/11/22

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

Diversity & Inclusion
Gender bias
IT Startup(s)

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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 ed., Vol. Cham, pp. 328-334). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 463 ). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20706-8_23

Šinik, Tea ; Snippert, Joeri ; Jansen, Slinger. / Gender Bias in the Recruitment Process of IT Startups in the Netherlands. Software Business : 13th International Conference, ICSOB 2022, Bolzano, Italy, November 8–11, 2022, Proceedings. editor / Noel Carroll ; Anh Nguyen-Duc ; Xiaofeng Wang ; Viktoria Stray. Vol. Cham 1. ed. Springer, 2022. pp. 328-334 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing).

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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

Gender Bias in the Recruitment Process of IT Startups in the Netherlands. / Šinik, Tea; Snippert, Joeri; Jansen, Slinger.
Software Business : 13th International Conference, ICSOB 2022, Bolzano, Italy, November 8–11, 2022, Proceedings. ed. / Noel Carroll; Anh Nguyen-Duc; Xiaofeng Wang; Viktoria Stray. Vol. Cham 1. ed. Springer, 2022. p. 328-334 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 463 ).

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Šinik T, Snippert J, Jansen S. Gender Bias in the Recruitment Process of IT Startups in the Netherlands. In Carroll N, Nguyen-Duc A, Wang X, Stray V, editors, Software Business : 13th International Conference, ICSOB 2022, Bolzano, Italy, November 8–11, 2022, Proceedings. 1 ed. Vol. Cham. Springer. 2022. p. 328-334. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-20706-8_23