Study shows discrimination against men in occupations that are dominated by women

Submitted by Douglas on Wed, 2021-10-27 21:49

This is a partial translation from a German article on MANNdat:

Even more studies that show that men are disadvantaged when applying because of their gender. This time from Sweden, Switzerland and the USA.

The study from Sweden
Researchers have examined the extent of gender discrimination in Sweden in different occupations. The analysis of employer responses to more than 3,200 fictitious applications in 15 professions showed that male applicants received less positive responses than female applicants. Male applicants in female-dominated professions were about half as likely to receive a positive answer from their employer as female applicants. For male-dominated and mixed occupations, the researchers found no significant differences in positive employer responses between male and female applicants.

The PsyPost ( https://www.psypost.org/2021/05/swedish-study-suggests-hiring-discrimination-is-primarily-a-problem-for-men-in-female-dominated-occupations-60699 , access 11.5.2021) writes:

  • The researchers examined data from three previous studies that systematically sent fictitious applications to real employers with vacancies to measure employment discrimination - a scientific technique known as the correspondence test. For each application, the researchers noted whether the fictitious applicant received an answer and, if so, what the answer was.
    3,200 fictitious applications for 15 different professions were sent, including four male-dominated professions - car mechanic, delivery / truck driver, IT developer and warehouse worker - and six women-dominated professions - customer service, cleaning, childcare, accountant, preschool teacher and registered nurse . Other occupations included B2B sales, telemarketing, cook, waiter and saleswoman.
    Granberg and his colleagues found that women had, on average, higher positive employer response rates than men, an effect that was mainly due to female-dominated occupations. There was no evidence of discrimination against women in male-dominated or mixed-sex occupations, but the researchers found evidence of discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations.

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    US-Study
    In 2019, a US study examined how gender-specific and class-specific characteristics of occupations affect recruitment practices and create discrimination based on the gender of applicants. Data from employees (N = 3,044 CVs) and from blue-collar workers (N = 3,258 CVs) as well as from analyzes of more than 3,000 job advertisements were analyzed. The early recruitment practices of employers were examined on the basis of two gender-specific occupational dimensions: (1) gender composition (male or female dominated occupations) and (2) gender stereotyping (masculinized or feminized occupations, based on the characteristics that employers emphasize in job advertisements indicate a polarization in the selection, in which the discrimination against female applicants in male-dominated and masculinized jobs is concentrated only in the working class, while discrimination against male applicants occurs more frequently and occurs in female-dominated and feminized jobs in both white-collar and blue-collar positions. Interestingly, the discrimination between male and female applicants - depending on the classified context - increases if these professional dimensions point in the same gender-specific direction (e.g. female-dominated positions that also contain feminized job advertisements). while discrimination against male applicants occurs more frequently and occurs in female-dominated and feminized workplaces in both white-collar and blue-collar settings. Interestingly, the discrimination between male and female applicants - depending on the classified context - increases if these professional dimensions point in the same gender-specific direction (e.g. female-dominated positions that also contain feminized job advertisements). while discrimination against male applicants occurs more frequently and occurs in female-dominated and feminized workplaces in both white-collar and blue-collar settings. Interestingly, the discrimination between male and female applicants - depending on the classified context - increases if these professional dimensions point in the same gender-specific direction (e.g. female-dominated positions that also contain feminized job advertisements).

    Quelle: Jill E Yavorsky: Uneven Patterns of Inequality: An Audit Analysis of Hiring-Related Practices by Gendered and Classed Contexts, Social Forces, Volume 98, Issue 2, December 2019, Pages 461–492, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soy123

    Discrimination by fathers when looking for work

    These results complement our already presented studies on the disadvantage of men in application processes. A Europe-wide study by a German-Dutch team showed ethnic discrimination and a bonus for women when applying. ( Source: Tilman Weigel “Dear Julia than Yusuf: How names and origins influence the chance of a job”, statistician blog, April 2, 2021 http://www.statistiker-blog.de/archives/wie-herkunft-die -jobchportunities-influenced / 6354.html , accessed 7.4.2021

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