The Invisible Women of
Recruitment Algorithms
Nourhan Gouda — Egypt
This report investigates how AI-powered recruitment tools and applicant screening algorithms (ATS) systematically disadvantage women in Egypt, by rejecting or filtering out female
applicants even when they are equally or more
qualified. It shows that bias in training data, criteria, and input design means many women’s
applications never reach human recruiters in
hiring processes.
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