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There could be conscious discrimination against the resume once the "married with kids" line is added; I wouldn't be so quick to assume that surely nobody is do
by pseut 13y ago
There could be conscious discrimination against the resume once the "married with kids" line is added; I wouldn't be so quick to assume that surely nobody is doing it. Honestly (and this is embarrassing to admit), I'd probably think much differently about a female job applicant who had that line on her resume than a male applicant.
In particular, I wouldn't necessarily expect that line to imply anything about a male candidate's commitment to the work/job, but just write it off as a misguided attempt to look "well rounded." So, shit, I'm worse than I thought.
- Amadou 13y agoThe bias goes like this: If a man is married with kids - then he's got more commitment to work because he's got the responsibility of a family depending on his income. If a woman is married with kids - the she's got less commitment to work because she's got the responsibility for the well-being of a family depending on her attention.
- pseut 13y agoIt's not just that, but more about why the applicant thinks that "married with kids" is important information on his or her resume. Why does he or she want to broadcast that fact (especially given that, in the US at least, it's illegal to ask a job applicant if he or she is married and has kids because of the possibility of exactly this discrimination)? But, of course, if the applicant is qualified I should try to figure out why in the job interview, not by projecting some made up story on the resume.
- Spooky23 13y agoI drop that sometimes as a invitation to discriminate when I don't know alot about the organization. If you're going to be giving me dirty looks for working less than 50 hours, have an unspoken mandatory happy hour attendance policy, 24x7 oncall, etc, I don't want to waste the time of both parties by interviewing with you.