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Originally Posted by [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/gender/story/0,,1717638,00.html?gusrc=rss Guardian Unlimited (click for the whole article)[/url]]Sexual discrimination is rife in certain professions but it affects men as well as women, according to research which challenges the traditional notion that women are the only victims of sexism in job applications.
The economists sent off two fake applications for more than 400 jobs in the four professions. Each applicant had equal experience, qualifications and age profiling but one bore a man's name, the other a woman's. They found women were half as likely to be invited for an interview for an engineering job compared with men, and men were nearly four times less likely than women to get an interview for the secretarial posts. Men also faced significant bias in accountancy, where 30% of the workforce is already female, and in the computer analyst jobs, where one in five is a woman. |
However, the article ends in the usual "well-but-women-have-it-worse-because-of-that-horrible-pay-gap" style...
6th-March-2006
