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Résumés With "White-Sounding" Names Have Better Success?
Difficult to pronounce last names might elicit some middle school teasing, and unfortunately name-based discrimination doesn't end once the days of playground recess are long gone. According to a study performed for the National Bureau of Economic Research, résumés with "white-sounding" names have a 50 percent greater chance of receiving a response from employers compared to applicants with African American names.
CNN Money spoke with a few job seekers with "ethnic-sounding" last names who are convinced their names are turning off employers from giving them a chance.
Your Two Cents: Have You Felt Discriminated Against at Work?
Discrimination can have many ugly faces; whether it's deliberate or unintentional it never feels good when you've been unfairly treated. On Sunday's episode of Mad Men, Peggy Olsen finally got the office she deserves — one that doesn't double as the copy room. She made the change happen by standing up for herself and believing that her contributions were enough to warrant her own office, even if she was (gasp!) a woman.
Résumé Trend: Removing Your Graduation Date
Age discrimination is usually reserved for job applicants decades out of college, but even those on the younger side of the job hunt may also be targets. Job seekers of all ages have started adopting the practice of omitting their college graduation date from their résumés to keep their exact ages a secret.
Some older workers are taking this a step further by eliminating their earliest work experience.
Have You Witnessed Weight Discrimination at Work?
I've never heard anyone try to defend the US when someone calls our country fat, but weight discrimination is certainly a hefty issue in this country. Women have been particularly mistreated and discriminated against because of extra pounds, and at considerably lower weights relative to their body size than men. Self-reported cases of weight discrimination show that women begin noticing a difference in the way they're treated when they're about 13 pounds overweight.
Utterly Ridiculous: Workers Fired For Not Smoking
Yes, you read that correctly. Three workers at a German computer company were fired because they requested a non-smoking work environment. The trio, who made up about a third of the small ten person company, apparently caused enough of a stir that the boss kicked their non-smoking butts to the curb.
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How Not to Behave: Career Questions From Mad Men
When it comes to workplace drama, Mad Men has it all: high-stakes accounts, employees fighting for promotions and power, interoffice affairs, drinking on the job, and professional talent clouded by shenanigans, secrecy, and even sexual harassment. Whenever I watch the show I am both captivated by the saucy situations and characters and thankful for how far we have come as professionals since the 1960s. Obviously, the characters' antics spark all kinds of career questions for us modern women.
Hiring Managers Show Preference For Employed Candidates
It never occurred to me that some companies would discriminate between hiring a candidate who is already employed, and one whose status is unemployed. Adding fuel to the frustration of many laid off workers, it appears that more hiring managers are stating a preference for the former.
It's discouraging to learn that some employers only have eyes for passive job seekers.
Men Earn in Nine Months What You Earn in a Year
The gender pay gap is definitely not a thing of the past — the 77 cents that women make for every man's dollar in this country is a sure sign that gender inequality continues to plague the workplace. To put things in perspective, men make the equivalent of a woman's yearly salary by the time the first of September rolls around. Configured on a weekly basis, a woman must work until the following Tuesday to catch up to a man in an equivalent position.
Will the US Follow Britain's Lead in Exposing Underpaying Companies?
The US is very hush-hush compared to other countries when it comes to discussing money, and our federal law protects our income tax information from being exposed. Not only does this protect individuals' privacy, it also conceals the prevalent gap between the rich and poor and makes the exact gender gap difficult to measure.
UK Equality Minister Harriet Harman has spearheaded proposed laws that would encourage companies to publish figures showing their average gender pay gap.
College Degrees Pay Off, Especially For Women
There are plenty examples of people who have made a name (and billions) for themselves without a college degree, but The New York Times argues that the progress women have made over the last 40 years goes to show that higher education is not overrated. The statistics they note are remarkable: Only 25 percent of women received a college degree in the 1960s, while today almost 40 percent will end up with one. During the same time period, between 30 and 35 percent of men graduated from a four-year college.
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