RE: Privilege

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(TheSpaceDuck)
This is nothing new, every man experiences this every day of their job-searching life. However what many don't know is that there have been actual studies done on this topic showing a general bias against men in hiring.

https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcab043/6412759 - Study found discrimination of men in hiring but no discrimination of women.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1418878112 - Hiring bias in STEM is 2:1 in favour of women

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165176519303428?via%3Dihub - Women favour hiring other women. Men do not favour hiring other men.

(LatinoEsq)
Towards the end of law school, my friends and I would discuss this same concept and all agreed that being a woman gets your foot through the front door more frequently than a qualified man. We’d constantly hear about certain female colleagues landing interviews and positions at firms that were completely out of their league. It was a running joke when someone would say they interviewed at firm but the position would probably be offered to the hot female applicant that was also waiting for her interview in the office lobby.

The icing on the cake was when the guy who was 2nd in line to being valedictorian (this guy was clearly at the top of our class from the beginning but got beat by a colleague who stayed off a semester to land the honor) got beat for a position at probably the top firm in the city by this very attractive colleague who was out of his league. I think mostly anyone who kept up with these lawschool politics knew exactly why that happened.

Suffice to say, having a pretty face, small waste and long legs gets your heel through the front door anywhere in the corporate/legal world.