Telecommunications company Openreach is set to shine a light on bias language used in job adverts, after the firm discovered that gender biased language discourages as many as one in two female candidates from applying.
In a release published by the company, Openreach shared that it hopes its new linguistic approach will help it meet a commitment to recruit a minimum of 20% female candidates into new positions in 2021.
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