Proceedings of the 2021 6th International Conference on Modern Management and Education Technology(MMET 2021)

An Experiment: Hiring Discrimination on Appearance, Especially on Women

Authors
Xinran Gao
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Xinran Gao
Available Online 12 October 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211011.058How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Appearance discrimination, obese females, gender gap
Abstract

It’s a common phenomenon that appearance discrimination occurring in Hiring condition, however, in China, things are a little different. Compare to other countries’ gender gap decreased gradually, the difference of gender in China kept rising. An experiment was built up in this article, both implicit and explicit bias were measured and discussed: made-up resumes were sending to hiring managers and callback rates were recorded, then questionnaires were sending to hiring managers for IAT test result as well. The both result were been discussed and possible future plan were proposed on appearance discrimination when it comes to hiring condition, especially, when it comes to women.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 6th International Conference on Modern Management and Education Technology(MMET 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
12 October 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-437-7
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211011.058How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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