Quick Summary: Job Description Gender Bias in 2026 Job description gender bias usually comes down to a handful of repeat offenders. Ongig’s Text Analyzer tracked every masculine-coded word swap made between January 1 and July 13, 2026. The most-replaced word was “strong” (42 swaps), followed by “lead” (26) and “independently” (13). Below, we break down… Read more »

Quick Summary We used to rank feminine-biased words by how often they showed up in random job postings. This year, though, we tried something different instead: we looked at the words our own clients actually swapped out inside Text Analyzer, from January to mid-July 2026. The clear winner is the “collaborate” family (collaboration, collaborate, collaborative,… Read more »

Despite the hard work of activists and women in every industry, gender bias remains in the hiring process. Many hiring professionals are aware of more common forms of gender bias, like pregnancy-related discrimination. Less well-known is biased language in job descriptions. But biased language in job descriptions, like job descriptions that favor masculine-coded words and… Read more »