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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

My position is the disparities are mostly due to other reasons. But people want to believe they’re about qualified candidates being turned away by bigots and sexists because that makes for a more emotionally stirring narrative.

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minoritie...ore-interviews

Employer callbacks for resumes that were whitened fared much better in the application pile than those that included ethnic information, even though the qualifications listed were identical. Twenty-five percent of black candidates received callbacks from their whitened resumes, while only 10 percent got calls when they left ethnic details intact. Among Asians, 21 percent got calls if they used whitened resumes, whereas only 11.5 percent heard back if they sent resumes with racial references.

https://hbr.org/2017/10/hiring-discr...ed-in-25-years

Broadly, our meta-analysis of callback rates from all existing field experiments showed evidence of discrimination against both black and Latino applicants. Since 1990 white applicants received, on average, 36% more callbacks than black applicants and 24% more callbacks than Latino applicants with identical résumés.

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