Question

In 2004, researchers Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan sent fictitious resumes in response to employers' help-wanted job postings. The researchers made the resumes identical with regard to the fictitious applicants' qualifications but altered the names on the resumes to reflect male versus female names and "White-sounding" versus "African-American-sounding" names. They found that resumes with "White names" like Emily and Greg received 50 percent more callbacks for interviews than did the resumes with "Black names" like Tyrone and Lakeisha. The results of this study indicate that employment decisions of some employers might not be _____________________________ and could indicate illegal discrimination under _________________________________.

Answer 1

The results of this study indicate that employment decisions of some employers might not be status blind and could indicate illegal discrimination under Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Explanation:

An important act in US is The Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law came into act on 2nd July, 1964. This law has rules and regulations that are against the inequalities and discrimination that prevails in schools, public areas and also in employment areas. The inequality may be based on the gender, nationality, religion,race or color.

In the example given, the discrimination of employment occurs based on the names that belongs to white and black. It has been stated that the names related to whites will get 50% of callbacks when compared to the names of the blacks. Hence, the decisions that are taken by the employers should not be status blind  and this illegal inequalities comes under Civil Rights Act of 1964.