How does employment discrimination illustrate the widespread and powerful impacts of color-blind racism, or racism that people are not necessarily even aware of? Describe Bertrand and Mullainathan’s study and what this tells us about employment
discrimination.
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
1. Employment discrimination (discrimination in hiring and promotion) is a widespread contributor to institutionalized inequality in the United States. It is not always intentional, but can result from implicit bias.
2. Bertrand and Mullainathan conducted a study in which 5,000 resumes, controlled for quality but varying by the name of applicant with some names sounding “white” and some sounding “African American,” were sent to employers for 1,300 employment postings in Boston and Chicago.
3. Their study, which found that “white-sounding” names received 50 percent more callbacks, strongly demonstrates that whether or not discrimination is intentional, it is widespread and has powerful effects on people’s employment chances.
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