Map: Australia One of corporate Australia's most-respected chief executives has said there is now "hard evidence" of unconscious bias at work at some of the country's science, technology, engineering and maths-based organisations. Ann Sherry, the executive chairman of cruise ship company Carnival Australia, told a crowd of 1,300 business leaders that some companies in this area had achieved a five-fold increase in women being short-listed for jobs by using a practice known as "blind shortlisting". "Some of the STEM [science, technology, engineering and maths] organisations are introducing blind shortlisting to their recruitment processes," she said. "By removing ...

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