Hiring bias against transgender women depends on both identity and appearance, field experiment suggests
🤖 AI-generated content — The title and summary were produced automatically by artificial intelligence, without human editorial review.
A field experiment involving over 10,000 job applications in Germany indicates that transgender women face significant hiring penalties based on identity and appearance. Disclosing a transgender identity or possessing male-coded facial features each independently reduced positive employer responses by about 10 percent, while the combination of both signals resulted in a compounded penalty of 32 percent. The findings were published as a working paper on SSRN and have not yet been peer reviewed.
Continue in the app — vote & join in ➔Source: PsyPost · via ahirlevel.hu