Sentence examples for equal qualifications from inspiring English sources

The duration of unemployment was randomly assigned to candidates of otherwise equal qualifications.

My bitterness was compounded by the fact that we had equal qualifications and experience, and that I had voiced my concerns about the potential problems when the job was advertised.

If black and white youths with equal qualifications apply to be a shop assistant in a Rio mall, the white will get the job, he adds.The debate over affirmative action splits both left and right.

"Examination of the evidence indicates that female employees working in warehouse positions had substantially equal qualifications to males working in the same positions, but were paid lower wages even though females were performing the same duties as males," the ruling said.

There's reason to be suspicious on this front: a separate experiment using fictitious job candidates with equal qualifications and background experience found that mothers are judged to be less competent and committed to work than non-mothers, and were consequently discriminated against in hiring and salary decisions.

Another study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that people who sent in résumés with "black-sounding" names had a considerably harder time getting called back from employers than did people who sent in résumés showing equal qualifications but with "white-sounding" names.

A recent study revealed that up to 90 percent of employers would hire a nonsmoker over a smoker of equal qualification.

Nor are all qualifications equal; the BTec is not as widely recognised as A-levels.

According to the complaint, the discrimination begins when minority employees are hired and given lower starting salaries than white employees with equal or lesser qualifications.

"This shows that things are changing over generations as more women join the labour market and their skills and qualifications equal those of men".

Black and Latino students with academic qualifications equal to those of white students are marginally more likely to get into elite higher education institutions.