By Rebecca Jane Stokes — Written on Aug 02, 2022
Fairygodboss ran a study in October of 2017. In the study, they rounded up 500 hiring professionals made up of both men and women and showed them photos of prospective female job hires. The photos included women of different shapes, sizes, hairstyles, clothing options, and races. They were asked to apply three adjectives to each woman and then say how likely they were to hire her based on the photograph alone.
First, we have the order in which a female hiring professional would hire a woman based on the photos:
- Brunette: 58.96 percent
- Black woman: 50.2 percent
- High neckline/curly hair: 45.82 percent
- Smiling: 41.04 percent
- Short hair: 39.84 percent
- Blonde: 39.04 percent
- Asian: 32.37 percent
- Older woman: 31.08 percent
- Tattooed: 26.29 percent
- Latina: 23.11 percent
- Low neckline: 22.31 percent
- Wearing a skirt: 16.73 percent
- Heavier: 14.74 percent
- Frowning: 12.75 percent
Here’s what that same breakdown looks like for male hiring professionals:
- Brunette: 61.04 percent
- Blonde: 50.2 percent
- High neckline: 49.8 percent
- Black woman: 40.96 percent
- Low neckline: 36.95 percent
- Smiling: 34.94 percent
- Short hair: 30.92 percent
- Asian: 30.52 percent
- Latina: 30.12 percent
- Older woman: 27.31 percent
- Curly hair/skirt: 26.1 percent
- Tattooed: 22.09 percent
- Frowning: 17.27 percent
- Heavier: 15.66 percent
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