We're starting today's video with two questions.

Do you think that men are likely to be sexist against women in the hiring process?

That in some circumstances a man won't hire a woman because she is a woman?

Comment below let me know what you think.

The next question.

Do you think that a computer algorithm would do a better job of hiring people equally,

meaning that there would be less discrimination and more women and minorities would be hired?

Comment below let me know what you think.

We've got a story now that Amazon was secretly running an artificial intelligence

in their recruiting process.

The idea was a machine will do a better job of finding the best candidate

and it won't discriminate based on gender or race.

However, it ultimately did start discriminating because there are key factors

and key differences between men and women that the algorithm actually found.

Amazon had to suspend this practice.

And there's other data to suggest that even though we don't have an equality of outcome,

meaning that in many jobs we don't see 52% women and 48% men,

we do see that men actually favor women in the hiring process.

And when we go gender blind in recruitment, it actually penalizes women.

So perhaps it's not so much about sexism more so that men and women make different choices.

But let's explore this a little bit.

First we'll start with the story about Amazon.

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