An Experiment: Hiring Discrimination on Appearance, Especially on Women

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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© 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xinran Gao
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/12
TI  - An Experiment: Hiring Discrimination on Appearance, Especially on Women
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 6th International Conference on Modern Management and Education Technology（MMET 2021）
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 324
EP  - 328
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211011.058
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211011.058
ID  - Gao2021
ER  -