That's the message being sent by the corporate sector in India to job applicants. Researchers at Princeton University and the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies sent 4808 fictitious resumes to 548 job ads placed in English newspapers throughout the country and recorded which of the made up applicants received callbacks. The content of the resumes was the same but names of the fictitious applicants were either typically upper-caste, typically lower-caste, or typically Muslim. (If this sounds familiar, it's because a very similar study was carried out by researchers in the US to estimate the level of discrimination against African-Americans in the US labour market.)
The results were striking: while nearly all of the phony upper-caste applicants received callbacks, only 67% of the lower-caste ones and a shocking 33% of the Muslim ones did.
Maybe reservations for the private sector isn't that bad of an idea after all.
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