Job Discrimination, Based on a Name

Room for Debate, The New York Times

Raven-Symoné has apologized for saying, after watching a video of “ghetto names,” that she wouldn’t hire someone with an unusual African-American name. Such discrimination in hiring is common, and one study found that resumes sent out under African-American sounding names were 50 percent less likely to land job interviews than identical resumes sent out under white-sounding names.

How can employers confront racial bias over something as seemingly irrelevant as a name?

Read the discussion here.

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