{"id":17125,"date":"2013-05-30T13:32:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T23:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=17125"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T01:23:19","slug":"muslim-women-wearing-headscarfs-face-job-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/30\/muslim-women-wearing-headscarfs-face-job-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim women wearing headscarfs face job discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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A University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa Shidler College of Business MBA<\/abbr> student wearing a hijab (headscarf).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Assistant Professor Sonia Ghumman<\/strong> from the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa Shidler College of Business<\/a> found that Hijabis (Muslim women who wear headscarfs) encountered discrimination when seeking employment. Ghumman and her co-researcher Ann Marie Ryan of Michigan State University<\/a> outlines their findings in the May 2013 issue of Human Relations<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We conducted a field experiment to investigate the extent to which individuals wearing religious attire encounter discrimination during the hiring process,” said Ghumman. “We asked students (ages 19–22) from several ethnic backgrounds to seek employment with and without the hijab (headscarf) at retail stores and restaurants in two shopping malls. The malls were located primarily in middle-income cities in the Midwest. The job seekers were paired with an observer and yielded a total of 112 trials.”<\/p>\n

The study measured:<\/p>\n