Needing in May 1989 to cut staff at Piscataway High School by one, the board had fired Ms Taxman, who is white, but had retained for the sake of racial diversity a black teacher, Debra Williams, who had identical qualifications and seniority.
As Michelle Chen explains for Colorlines, black Americans routinely pay more for their mortgages than white borrowers with identical qualifications, and are often denied loans entirely based on nothing but the color of their skin.
Among its charges, the DOJ specifically alleged that the bank marketed its loans primarily to white customers, failed to offer desirable loan products to black customers, and, most damning, denied financing to black applicants with identical qualifications as white applicants.
A more recent study demonstrating that this unconscious bias against women persists in STEM found that faculty members of all genders were more likely to hire a male undergraduate lab assistant than a female, pay the male lab assistant more than the female, and offer a greater level of mentoring, even when the candidates had identical qualifications (Moss-Racusin et al., 2012).
Law schools today offer nearly identical curriculums taught by professors with nearly identical qualifications because students face nearly identical bar exams.
A recent paper† has documented that American firms are one-and-a-half times as likely to interview a person they think is white than one they think is black, even if both have identical qualifications.
As Trevor Phillips pointed out in his "sleepwalking into segregation" speech, made after 7/7, a Pakistani man with identical qualifications to a white man is still going to earn £300,000 less in his lifetime.
One study that Dr. Ming cites, by researchers at Yale, found that faculty members at research universities described female applicants for a manager position as significantly less competent than male applicants with identical qualifications.
American astronauts and identical twins.
They sported tank tops, identical hairbands and identical shiny hair.
They become chain pubs and identical.
