If there is only one woman in your candidate pool there is statistically no chance she’ll be hired.

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Despite the ever-growing business case for diversity, roughly 85% of board members and executives are white and male. The biggest challenge increasing diversity in hiring seems to be figuring out how to overcome unconscious biases that get in the way of these well-intentioned programs. Harvard Business Review conducted three studies to examine what happens when you change the status quo among finalists for a job position and shares the results in this article .

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Large Employer (over 1,000 employees), Mid-size Employer (250-1,000 employees), Small Employer (fewer than 250 employees)

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