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AI‐hiring technology is becoming increasingly widely adopted, raising important questions about what effect such technologymay have on organizational inequality regimes. Although there is a large and growing body of literature surrounding the effectsof AI hiring, its impacts, and bias, markedly less is known about who develops, sells, and markets such tools, and what role thismay play in the altering and further entrenching of inequality regimes. Drawing on the voices of 21 developers and hiringplatform vendors, this study explores current levels of apathy surrounding gender equality in AI‐hiring tech. From the findings,it is argued that DEI issues and subsequent debiasing are seen as iterative, retrofit solutions, problems that can be tended toretrospectively, rather than inclusion and equity being built‐in from the outset. In turn, it is posited that algorithmic bias and AI‐hiring tools serve as a contemporary facet of inequality regimes. This article offers a threefold contribution to Feminist AIscholarship: a theoretical extension to Acker's inequality regimes framework in the form of an annex, which includes the role ofartificial intelligence in the reproduction of inequalities, a conceptual model which outlines new accelerants of inequality re-gimes, and contemporary empirical insights from a hard to access group.
Author(s): Yarrow E
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Gender, Work and Organization
Year: 2026
Issue: ePub ahead of Print
Online publication date: 02/08/2026
Acceptance date: 14/07/2026
Date deposited: 04/08/2026
ISSN (print): 0968-6673
ISSN (electronic): 1468-0432
Publisher: Wiley
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70232
DOI: 10.1111/gwao.70232
Data Access Statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions.
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