I work as a data scientist at a tech company. AI hasn’t replaced this job yet, so I occasionally get recruitment messages from other tech companies on LinkedIn who are trying to hire in this field. On one such occasion, I received a message from a recruiter that described the data scientist they were looking for: “Educational background: Statistics/Machine Learning/Data Science; Should have some industry experience at least 1 year or so working in ML/DS in companies; Has done some coding in his projects (For example: hive, SQL, scala, pyspark, python, scikit, one of the tech mentioned above that is).” Upon reading it more carefully, I noticed it said “has done some coding in HIS projects.” What an unbelievably sad way to reveal the situation for many women in science and tech – that the recruiter and hiring team were already imagining a man for the job (even if subconsciously or accidentally) as they wrote up the requirements before they had even started reaching out to candidates.
