Career Lesbians. Getting Hired for Not Having Kids?

Stijn Baert

Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination against young heterosexual women because of their potential to have children. This effect is driven by age rather than by motherhood. We do not find any unequal treatment at older ages. This age effect is consistent with our theoretical expectation that, relative to lesbian women, young heterosexual women are penalised for having children more frequently and taking on, on average, more at-home-caring tasks.

Keywords: experiments; labour market discrimination; motherhood; sexual orientation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 J13 J16 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2013-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-lab and nep-lma
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