The Accenture Labs’ Gender Pay Parity Prototype provides a set of services that work together to promote fairness during the hiring process. It is designed to extend any online talent sourcing platform with functionality to promote equitable pay and hiring processes. Read our news release: https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/accenture-demonstrates-technology-prototype-to-promote-gender-pay-parity-at-the-white-house.htm

1. Gender Pay Parity
Prototype for the ‘Gig’
Economy
Accenture Labs
#hackthepaygap

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Context: The emergence of online labor markets is
disrupting the way enterprises think about their workforces
Large enterprises are experiencing a two-pronged shift…
1. Greater demand for agility: shorter project lifecycles, rapid change in mix of skills required
2. Evolving needs and values in the workforce: Engaging work vs. long-term stability
The rise of the freelance – or ‘gig’ – economy enhances the ability to match people with work that
best suits them. To take advantage of this significant opportunity organizations must change their
thinking from static relationships, with fixed sets of human resources to leveraging a Liquid
Workforce, ‘orchestrating’ across dynamic teams of internal and external labor pools.
Gigeconomy is Here: 43% of the US workforce is
expected to be freelancers by 2020.1
1 “Intuit Forecast: 7.6M People in On-Demand Economy by 2020,” Intuit press release, August 13, 2015;

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Accenture Labs’ Prototype is designed to
extend any online talent sourcing platform
with functionality to promote equitable pay
and hiring processes.
Our initial prototype has been built on
top of the Accenture Labs Crowd Talent
Sourcing Tool, which provides an
intelligent unified interface for sourcing
the right internal and external labor
markets. The prototype provides a set
of services that work together to promote
fairness in 4 distinct ways. Existing Accenture
asset
#hackthepaygap
extensions
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Gender neutral job posts:
We use a text analysis tool on the job
description to quantify the appeal and
gender neutrality of the post.
Job poster can get a more in-depth
analysis in the text analysis tool

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Hiring process visibility:
Hiring managers can understand any potential unconscious biases at play
during the hiring process by viewing drop off by gender at each hiring stage
HIRINGSTAGE1
HIRINGSTAGE2
FINAL
OFFERS
HIRING PROCESS LIFECYCLE

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Pay Equity Awareness: By comparing proposed wages across genders against industry
averages, hiring managers and applicants can see and address discrepancies
Government statistics sourcesApplicant’s proposed wages
WAGE COMPARISON AGAINST
INDUSTRY AVG
Applicants Hiring
Managers

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We intend to grow this capability as part of Accenture’s Liquid Workforce effort,
integrating with our own platform and making it available for integration with other
commercial platforms.
Job Post
Optimizer
Applicant
Tagging
Wage
Validator
Accenture
Prototype
Hiring
Analyzer
Text
Analysis
Service
Gender API
Service
External
Services
Data
Sources
Accenture
Crowd
Platform
Upwork
Applause
OneSpace
External labor
Markets
Future Roadmap
Data Sources:
• Crowd platform
demographics data
• Fine grained job
categories
• Skills repositories
• NLP analysis
Potential Partners:
• Textio
• Microsoft/LinkedIn
• Upwork
• US Dept. of
Commerce
• Bureau of Labor
Statistics
Hiring Tool

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Thanks to all those who participated in Accenture Labs’
prototype!
R&D Leadership Filming and Logistics Marketing and Media
Relations
• Mary Hamilton
• Manish Mehta
• Alex Kass
• Musawer Choudhry
• Lilibeth Gangas
• Lakeisha Poole (of
Onyx)
• Kimberly C. Bonilla
• Elise Cornille
• Dominique Rougeau
• Oriana Branon
• Hannah Unkefer
• Suzanne Randall
• Ana Dujmovic
Data Analytics Accenture Developers External Developers
• Jana Thompson
• Allan Enemark
• Stacy Joseph
• Kelly LaBuff
• Chris Hawkins
• Sai Srinivasan
• Omar Tahboub
• Veenu Arora
• Sakshi Jain
• Abhinav Kumar
• Aman Thakral
• Jerrid Matthews
This project is an
example of our
Liquid Workforce
tools and
methodologies in
action!
We created an
liquid team, as the
project progressed,
where members
filled roles based on
their skills and
availability.
Team Lead: Taurean Dyer

9. Thank you!
For more on Accenture’s Liquid Workforce vision:
www.accenture.com/technologyvision
Contact Mary Hamilton: mary.hamilton@accenture.com