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Oodles of research demonstrates that women are evaluated less positively than identically qualified men when applying for stereotypically male jobs, such as leadership roles.
Research shows that given two identically qualified candidates for a job, for example, a white candidate is more likely to receive a favorable job offer than a minority candidate.
Yale University researchers asked 127 scientists to review a job application of identically qualified male and female students and found that the faculty members – both men and women – consistently scored a male candidate higher on a number of criteria such as competency and were more likely to hire the male.
Differences in working conditions between service types can exacerbate status differentials too, with educators working in preschools generally having access to 'higher salaries, shorter hours and more holidays' (Productivity Commission 2014, 489) than their identically qualified colleagues working in long day care services.
To test this hypothesis, the man and woman needed to be identically qualified.
White participants recommend hiring a white applicant with borderline qualifications 76percentt of the time, while recommending an identically qualified black applicant only 45percentt of the time.
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Part 1 of this blog described surprising new findings from our research showing faculty prefer women over identically-qualified men for an assistant professorship (link).
Third, if faculty were aware that our purpose was to determine if they are biased, they should have given the same rank to the identically-qualified man and woman (i.e., tie them for first place).
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