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Expressions of the Gender Binary in Recruitment Situations : Gender Normativity in Equal Employment Opportunity Statements and Applicant Gender Expression

Klysing, Amanda LU ; Renström, Emma LU ; Gustafsson Sendén, Marie and Lindqvist, Anna LU (2021) LGBTIQ+ Workplace Inclusion Conference
Abstract
The current research studied effects of different gender expressions (non-normative or normative)in two phases of recruitment: applicant attraction and applicant evaluation. Experiment 1 (N = 404) investigated how Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) statements in an organisation description that emphasized gender as binary (women and men), gender as diverse (multi-gender), or gender as irrelevant (de-gender) influenced organisational evaluations. There was no significant effect of EEO statement on evaluations of the organisation. Multi-gendered and de-gendered EEO statements increased perceptions of the organisation as having a gender diverse staff body. This indicates that gender minorities can be explicitly included in EEO statements... (More)
The current research studied effects of different gender expressions (non-normative or normative)in two phases of recruitment: applicant attraction and applicant evaluation. Experiment 1 (N = 404) investigated how Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) statements in an organisation description that emphasized gender as binary (women and men), gender as diverse (multi-gender), or gender as irrelevant (de-gender) influenced organisational evaluations. There was no significant effect of EEO statement on evaluations of the organisation. Multi-gendered and de-gendered EEO statements increased perceptions of the organisation as having a gender diverse staff body. This indicates that gender minorities can be explicitly included in EEO statements without negative impact on gender majority groups. Experiment 2 (N = 214) investigated how job applicants with a normative or non-normative gender expression were evaluated by HR-specialists. Applicants with a non-normative gender expression were rated as more suitable for the position and recommended a higher starting salary. Women were in general rated as the most likely to be hired, and women with a non-normative gender expression were rated as more likely to be employed than ditto men. Having a non-normative gender expression was thus not found to be a cause for biased evaluations in this simulated initial recruitment situation. (Less)
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LGBTIQ+ Workplace Inclusion Conference
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Leiden, Netherlands
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2021-05-20 - 2021-05-21
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Who is Woman and Who is Man? Normativity at Intersections of Gender and Sexual Orientation
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  abstract     = {{The current research studied effects of different gender expressions (non-normative or normative)in two phases of recruitment: applicant attraction and applicant evaluation. Experiment 1 (N = 404) investigated how Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) statements in an organisation description that emphasized gender as binary (women and men), gender as diverse (multi-gender), or gender as irrelevant (de-gender) influenced organisational evaluations. There was no significant effect of EEO statement on evaluations of the organisation. Multi-gendered and de-gendered EEO statements increased perceptions of the organisation as having a gender diverse staff body. This indicates that gender minorities can be explicitly included in EEO statements without negative impact on gender majority groups. Experiment 2 (N = 214) investigated how job applicants with a normative or non-normative gender expression were evaluated by HR-specialists. Applicants with a non-normative gender expression were rated as more suitable for the position and recommended a higher starting salary. Women were in general rated as the most likely to be hired, and women with a non-normative gender expression were rated as more likely to be employed than ditto men. Having a non-normative gender expression was thus not found to be a cause for biased evaluations in this simulated initial recruitment situation.}},
  author       = {{Klysing, Amanda and Renström, Emma and Gustafsson Sendén, Marie and Lindqvist, Anna}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{05}},
  title        = {{Expressions of the Gender Binary in Recruitment Situations : Gender Normativity in Equal Employment Opportunity Statements and Applicant Gender Expression}},
  year         = {{2021}},
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