An Experiment: Hiring Discrimination on Appearance, Especially on Women

Abstract

It's a common phenomenon that appearance discrimination occurring in Hiring condition, however, in China, things are a little different. Compare to other countries' gender gap decreased gradually, the difference of gender in China kept rising. An experiment was built up in this article, both implicit and explicit bias were measured and discussed: made-up resumes were sending to hiring managers and callback rates were recorded, then questionnaires were sending to hiring managers for IAT test result as well. The both result were been discussed and possible future plan were proposed on appearance discrimination when it comes to hiring condition, especially, when it comes to women.