Berlin : A Muslim migrant woman in Germany who wears a headscarf has to send almost five times as many job applications as a native German candidate with same qualifications to get an interview, research released Tuesday claimed.
Independent research institute IZA published preliminary results of a study into the employment chances of female migrants in Germany, revealing a significant bias against migrants and women with headscarves.
Experts prepared fake resumes and sent them out to nearly 1,500 companies across Germany seeking office personnel. The resumes were based on three different profiles, but with almost the same qualifications. The experts attached photos to the resumes – a common practice in Germany.
The first profile had a typical German name, Sandra Bauer. The second profile was a Turkish name — Meryem Ozturk — with a bare-headed photo. The third profile had the same Turkish name, but included the picture of the same woman wearing a headscarf.
Callback rates to the applications revealed a high level of discrimination against female migrants wearing headscarves. The applicant with the German name received positive replies from 18.8 percent of the companies she contacted.
Despite having almost the same qualifications, the applicant with a Turkish name received positive feedback from 13.5 percent of the companies.
The Turkish woman who wore a headscarf was contacted by only 4.2 percent of the companies she had applied to. “The results showed that Turkish migrants (signaled by a Turkish name) are discriminated against at a significant level, in particular when their photograph shows them wearing a Muslim headscarf,” IZA research fellow Prof. Doris Weichselbaumer wrote in the 27-page preliminary summary of the research paper.
“Everything else [being] equal, a female with a Turkish name who wears a headscarf has to send 4.5 times as many applications as an applicant with a German name and no headscarf to receive the same number of callbacks for an interview,” Weichselbaumer concluded.—AG/IINA
ONE SHOULD KEEP IN MIND,ALL NUNS WEAR SCARF ALMOST LIKE HIJAB,THAT WAS CHRISTIANITY.THAT WAS TAUGHT BY JESUS CHRIST.
WESTERN CHRISTIANS ARE ANTI CHRISTS THEY PROPAGATE WHAT IS FORBIDEEN N BIBLE
But they stay in church; no one would allow nuns with scarfs on job.
come out of cloak;
why you guys always ask for special favors, get some thing worthwhile for world other than violence.
@varun…itz not far ago..that with sickning regularity your sanghi/bajrangi thugs raped nuns in jharkand..mp..and odisha..as it is the brahman/bania cabal have cornered 70 percent of indian resources…..peep in your own backyard and see the comunal and casteist violence and degradation heaped on muslims/dalits/sikhs..for what purpose has the sangh/bhagwa parivaar has come into existence in 1925….hell to hindutwaad.
Bias of every kind against Muslims is very high in India
Every professional company feels that their employees should have good character & any employee should not create problems to company.
Recruiting muslims is risky since they might have been motivated by terrorists & hence on safer side companies avoid recruiting muslims.
So, instead of blaming Germany, you should blame terrorists who attack on innocent civilians using hijab. Muslim community itself has made their reputation bad.
The bias against Muslims is not just recent. Even 50 years ago I suffered due to it. If 50 years record is dug up you will find India did not recruit Muslims except marginally. Nehru pm of India shouted there can’t be Muslim police and Hindu police when Liyaqat Ali said why only Hindus are recruited. But even thereafter only Hindus in huge numbers continued to be recruited. Huge injustice is done even to recruited ones till date. Communalism is rampant even amongst Hindus. So secular Hindu is not correct. In fact all Hindus are communal when it comes to giving jobs to non Hindus especially Muslims due to RSS infused hatred. Burkha was ordered by Christ and Moses as well but these like to live naked.