The European Union Mutual Learning Programme in Gender Equality Artificial Intelligence and Gender Biases in Recruitment and Selection Processes - Comments paper – Portugal

Abstract

Despite the widespread entry of the topics related to artificial intelligence (hereafter AI) in the political discourse and media, in Portugal, specific issues regarding gender bias in recruitment and selection processes seem to be apparently out of the public agenda. Nonetheless, as Portugal's labour market is highly segregated along the classification gender, inequalities persist and there is resistance to change gender bias and stereotypes (Silva, 2018; Torres, 2018). This might mean that, despite being visibly out of the public agenda, invisible gender bias in recruitment and selection processes would certainly be pervasive in AI applications. Therefore, unpacking this issue is currently both a challenging and a relevant topic to address.