Terrific—a new thing for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to police in employment discrimination. A Canadian social scientist (the best kind, no doubt) is out with a paper that finds job applicants who include non-binary pronouns (like “they/them”) on their resumes get fewer call backs than normal people. Who woulda thunk it? Potential employers prefer to avoid hiring dramatists and schizophrenics.
The paper is Taryn versus Taryn (she/her) versus Taryn (they/them): A Field Experiment on Pronoun Disclosure and Hiring Discrimination. It concluded that “there is strong evidence of discrimination against applicants who disclose nonbinary ‘they/them’ pronouns: I find that doing so reduces positive employer response by 5.4 percentage points. . . There is also evidence that discrimination is larger (approximately double) in Republican than Democratic geographies.”
No wonder so many businesses are moving to red states.
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