Gay men and lesbian women less likely to be employed in a leadership position

Post by thehardsphere » Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 4:42 PM UTC

Raphmedia wrote: post #18

thehardsphere wrote: post #12

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> So, they have taken a group of homosexuals, without any history of leadership, and asked a group to rate how they would do as CEO based on voice only. The group answered based on sound alone that those individuals were not CEO material. Forgive me for asking this, but the article is currently unavailable due to 503. Did they describe at all the group who did the rating and choosing? I would think that if the goal w…

"Participants were recruited online through students’ contacts at a large Italian university. In Study 1a, the final sample consisted of 81 participants (37 males, Mage = 21.89 years, SD = 3.73). This sample was obtained after excluding participants who self-identified as non-heterosexuals (n = 9) or who had reported technical problems (n = 5) from the 95 participants who had completed the survey. In Study 2a, partic…

Ok, so the study actually tells us nothing about whether actual gay people are being discriminated against in employment as corporate executives. Instead, it tells us whether millenial Italians who have never had to think about employing a corporate executive, think that random gay people off the street fit their perception of who would make a good CEO.

I guess if you were going to do a first-pass to even see if people could be discriminated against for "sounding gay" it wouldn't be so bad but extrapolating any further than that seems like a big stretch.

Post by Raphmedia » Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 4:46 PM UTC

thehardsphere wrote: post #21

Raphmedia wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Participants were recruited online through students’ contacts at a large Italian university. In Study 1a, the final sample consisted of 81 participants (37 males, Mage = 21.89 years, SD = 3.73). This sample was obtained after excluding participants who self-identified as non-heterosexuals (n = 9) or who had reported technical problems (n = 5) from the 95 participants who had completed the survey. In Study 2a, partic…

Ok, so the study actually tells us nothing about whether actual gay people are being discriminated against in employment as corporate executives. Instead, it tells us whether millenial Italians who have never had to think about employing a corporate executive, think that random gay people off the street fit their perception of who would make a good CEO. I guess if you were going to do a first-pass to even see if peop…

This was my problem with the article. The study is alright, it doesn't draw any extreme conclusion.

The article's title is horrible. "Gay men and lesbian women less likely to be employed in a leadership position" ... really?

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