Verena Witzig

Verena Witzig

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Gender bias in recruiting: Developing a social science perspective

(Universität Kopenhagen, Coordination for Gender Research, 2021)
Nentwich, Julia C.
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Baumgärtner, Miriam K.
;
Chowdhury, Nilima Laura
;
Witzig, Verena

Unconscious bias training has become a popular intervention for eliminating discrimination in the workplace. Particularly recruitment processes are said to become fairer and more objective if gen-der biases are eliminated through training of personnel. However, the concept of gender bias, and particularly the idea that it can be trained away, has also been critiqued as too limited in its focus on individual mental processes, thereby neglecting effects of context, interaction and power. Taking this critique as our starting point, we argue that gender bias needs to be theorised in relation to a specifi c interaction and normative context. Building on cognitive social psychology, critical social psychology and on gender as a social practice we show that gender bias is not only an individual, but a funda-mentally social activity that is embedded within organisational norms and power relations and repro-duced in interaction. By theorising gender bias as a social practice, we expand the concept of gender bias beyond individual cognition. This perspective not only opens up the scope of explanation but is also a vital concept for exploring and combatting bias in recruiting.

Type: journal article

Journal: Women, Gender and Research, Kvinder, Kon & Forskning

Issue: 3

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/111204
Exzellenz, Diversität oder Effizienz? „Implicit bias“ in Berufungsverfahren als Zielkonflikte sozialer Praktiken

(Österreichische Gesellschaft für Hochschuldidaktik (ÖGHD), 2020-10-30)
Verena Witzig
;
Felix C Seyfarth

Type: journal article

Journal: Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung

Volume: 15

Issue: 3

URL: https://zfhe.at/index.php/zfhe/article/view/1456

DOI: 10.3217/zfhe-15-03/24

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/111645
Neue Väter, alte Mütter? Elternschaft zwischen Egalität und Unterschiedlichkeit

(Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016-05)
Witzig, Verena
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Nentwich, Julia C.
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Sieben, Anna
;
Mey, Günter

Type: journal article

Journal: Journal für Psychologie

Volume: 24

Issue: 1

URL: http://journal-fuer-psychologie.de/index.php/jfp/issue/view/48

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/104413
Mittendrin oder nur dabei? Arbeitsteilung und Vaterschaft nach Trennung oder Scheidung

( 2018-03-16)
Witzig, Verena

Type: conference paper

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/100661
PhD Survey 2019

( 2019-09)
Mittelbau der Universität St.Gallen
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Studentenschaft (SHSG)
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Di Maio, Gina
;
Witzig, Verena
;
Schüller, Sophie

Report on the Survey on the Supervision and Working Conditions of PhD Students at the University of St.Gallen

Type: work report

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/98291

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