Treatment of men by personnel

An interesting story from the, as always, somewhat schizophrenic Daily Mail. The headline is

Attractive women who attach photo to CV 'less likely to be employed'

but, that's not what it's really about.

Staff in personnel departments are overwhelmingly female, typically single and aged 29 on average, the researchers found.

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The research, published by The Royal Economic Society, involved sending more than 5,300 CVs for 2,650 job vacancies. For each job, two applications were sent. One contained a photograph of an attractive man or woman, or a plain-looking man or woman. The other CV was identical, but did not contain a photograph.

Nearly 20 per cent of attractive men got an interview.

But only 12.8 per cent of attractive women fared as well.

Of plain men, 9.2 per cent got an interview, compared with 13.6 per cent of plain women. Men who did not attach a picture were asked for interview 13.7 per cent of the time, compared with 16.6 per cent of women.

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To check this stereotype, researchers telephoned the companies who were recruiting to find out about the people who screened the candidates.

They found that 96 per cent were female, the majority were between the ages of 23 and 34 and nearly 70 per cent were single.

So, what no-one seems to have noticed, that men are significantly less likely to be invited for an interview when no photo is included, and even more so if they include a photo but are ugly. Even the attractive women supposedly being victimised are much better served by this than ugly men, and nearly as well as men who don't send photographs.

I just thank god for my prettiness.