New Report: Women Apply to Fewer Jobs Than Men, But Are More Likely to Get Hired

TendieDinner777 · 2022-01-28T05:48:11+00:00

At this point, being a woman, especially if you’re not white, is an advantage in being hired. Every company is itching to be more diverse.

It’s literally socially acceptable for the President to announce that he will discriminate against anyone who isn’t a black woman to be the Supreme Court Justice nominee, and before that, he announced the same criteria for his future running mate.

I had a coworker who used to tout how she uses her gender-neutral nickname to trick people into interviewing her. The funniest part is, our boss only interviewed her because we “needed” a woman to balance out our staff.

accidental_me · 2022-01-28T05:30:39+00:00

I skimmed it through, and the narrative goes something like this: Women want to fit the job description perfectly before they apply while men don't. Nevertheless, recruiters respond less often to female applicants. But when they do, they are more likely to recruit women than men.

The goal of the article is to help women by telling them and recruiters how to apply for jobs more efficiently. So, it feels very much like a feminist article. That, of course, is a warning sign: are the figures they are using real or rigged?

Sperm40mmSprintChamp · 2022-01-28T12:10:16+00:00

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Rachel794 · 2022-01-28T05:18:31+00:00

And yet feminists love playing the card of women getting so mistreated at work. Oh woe is me

AndyBrown65 · 2022-01-28T09:18:29+00:00

Confirmation that there is an anti male bias. She says that men and women are “equally qualified” but women have a higher chance of getting recruited. Could it be that the feminist HR Manager has confirmation bias?

boundarychimps · 2022-01-28T15:10:18+00:00

Is "how likely to apply" and "how likely to be accepted" really the right way to look at it?

I'd think it's "number of jobs investigated" which is about the same, and "number of applications needed to get hired" which is lower for women (it's just another way of framing that same 16-20% from the chance of applying or being accepted).

I suppose there's also number of offers before accepting one which would be the gap between "number of offers looked at" and "how likely to apply" vs "how likely to be accepted", but it looks like that's roughly even.

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It'd also be interesting to see a histogram of how many applications it takes to get hired or stop looking rather than just averages. Like, is there a difference at the median, or do incompetent women give up trying faster than incompetent men do? But, that'd require more individual-level tracking than they probably want to admit to.

redpills1 · 2022-01-28T16:32:10+00:00

The reason for that is that there is a much higher pressure on men to be successful and be better provider since society and women in particular made them believe that their whole value depends on them being useful providers and protectors for the woman. Men will get more desperate for a better job while a woman have more choices and can choose to work in an easier job and let the man to be her provider without losing her independency.

This is also why there are more men in high paying jobs and more male students in subjects that are associated with high salaries like engineering and computers, despite the fact that most university students are women.

CrunchyJeans · 2022-01-28T19:50:38+00:00

So as a guy should I just put “I decline to identify” in the box?

mrmensplights · 2022-01-29T08:05:37+00:00

Women play life on easy mode. Elementary school, high school, college/university, the justice system, family courts, and tribunals all skew to their advantage.

Corporate America is no different. Companies get investment via DEI initiatives. Affirmative action programs, diversity quotas, and other equity initiatives give women huge advantages in the job market. Especially in high paying white collar jobs. It makes sense they'd have to do less work to get a job.

Daman_1985 · 2022-01-28T13:29:40+00:00

This is a privilege, right?

Or is not because doesn't affect men?

McFeely_Smackup · 2022-01-28T20:14:37+00:00

One company I worked for, when we were recruiting, we'd get about 200 male resumes and maybe a dozen female for every position.

HR gave us a policy that EVERY female resume would get a phone screening at minimum. We had a special form to follow for their phone screening that included "recommend for in person interview Y/N". If we said no, you had to write a detailed justification why not. There's was no similar form for male phone screening.

What this did was automatically give a massive advantage to any female applicant, just by getting screened. Male resumes we'd sort though giving a few seconds to each one.

As a result every time I interviewed a female applicant, I found myself asking myself "would this person even be sitting here if she were male"?

wdean8358 · 2022-01-28T14:11:11+00:00

The article is a bit weird. It says recruiters are more likely to click on a man's profile, but once they do click on a woman's profile, they are more likely to hire her. Seems like there is a bias on both genders lol. But I will say that women wanting to meet all the requirements before applying to a job is silly.

Also, I don't really get the idea of creating a gender diverse workforce. I mean shouldn't it be about creating a more efficient workforce, regardless of the gender?

Oz70NYC · 2022-01-28T16:49:20+00:00

File under: News that doesn't shock or surprise me in the least.

bastiroid · 2022-01-28T11:17:19+00:00

I dont see an issue here at all. After going through the numbers it looks like woman write applications only when they fit the requirements better. That improves hiring percentage. No comparison between jobs but applications vs hiring. Think of it this way, would you apply for a job that fits you only 60% but you are confident you could learn the rest on the job? Or do you only apply if you have a 80% or higher match?

TryingToLearn_17382 · 2022-01-30T17:39:30+00:00

Jack Ma got rejected by KFC guys. He was the only one to not get accepted out of the people who requested the job. He was getting paid jack shit as a teacher. He then became one of the world's few billionaires. Stay strong, kings.

dirty_birdy_feet · 2022-01-28T21:28:47+00:00

Omg this sub is going to get me banned. Y’all are soooooo fragile and stupid.

Title	New Report: Women Apply to Fewer Jobs Than Men, But Are More Likely to Get Hired
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