Are gay men and lesbians discriminated against in the hiring process

By Ali M. Ahmed, L. Andersson, Mats Hammarstedt. 2013

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Sexual orientation discrimination in the United Kingdom’s labour market: A field experiment (2015, background): “Finally, Ahmed et al. (2013) found that gay men who were engaged in the ‘Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights’ received fewer invitations for interviews by 3–6 percent, and lesbians received fewer invitations for interviews at a rate of 6 percent.”
The relationship between LGBT inclusion and economic development: Macro-level evidence (2019, unknown): “A similar result was found for women in the U.S. identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (Mishel, 2016), for gay men and lesbians in Sweden (Ahmed, Andersson, & Hammarstedt, 2013), and for gay men and lesbians in the U.K. (Drydakis, 2015).”
A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis (2013, background): “Rather than being an explanatory variable, prior knowledge has the effect of perpetuating the vicious cycle of discrimination described in Section 2.3.”
Ethnic discrimination in hiring: comparing groups across contexts. Results from a cross-national field experiment (2019, result): “Whereas most earlier studies have used a matched pairs design, following studies such as Ahmed, Andersson, and Hammarstedt (2013) and Weichselbaumer (2015, 2016) in the GEMM study, we make use of an unpaired design.”
Discrimination Against Female Migrants Wearing Headscarves (2016, methodology): “To avoid detection, this experiment thus followed Ahmed et al. (2013) and Weichselbaumer (2015) in that only one profile was sent to each firm.”
Unexplored dimensions of discrimination in Europe: homosexuality and physical appearance (2015, unknown): “[4] Ahmed, A.”
Do Employers Prefer Fathers? Evidence from a Field Experiment Testing the Gender by Parenthood Interaction Effect on Callbacks to Job Applications (2017, background): “This expectation is based on the relatively high degree of gender egalitarian attitudes observed in Sweden (Brandt, 2011), a family policy promoting and facilitating mothers’ employment (Gornick and Meyers, 2003), and empirical findings in previous experimental studies showing small gender differenc”
Hiring Discrimination: An Overview of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005 (2017, unknown): “LGBT organisation member Cyprus Drydakis (2014) - Germany Weichselbaumer (2015) - Greece Drydakis (2009) - Drydakis (2011) - Drydakis (2012b) - Italy Patacchini et al. (2015) 0 Sweden Ahmed et al. (2013) - Bailey et al. (2013) 0 UK Drydakis (2015) -”