Research on elite law firms found that their hiring practices discriminate strongly based on social class — and an advantaged social background helps only men.
showing that hiring in top professional services firms is highly skewed toward applicants from wealthy families, we expected that an applicant’s social class background would play a decisive role in determining interview invitations.
We signaled gender by varying the applicant’s first name . Directly indicating a parent’s occupation or income on a resume might be strange for an employer to see, so we signaled social class position via accepted and often required portions of resumes: awards and extracurricular activities. Reflecting the fact that social class is a complex characteristic that cannot be boiled down to income, education, or lifestyle alone, we used a constellation of resume items to signal social class.
Even though all educational and work-related histories were the same, employers overwhelmingly favored the higher-class man. He had a callback rate more than four times of other applicants and received more invitations to interview than. But most strikingly, he did significantly better than the higher-class woman, whose resume was identical to his, other than the first name.
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