A new study revealed the discrimination against veiled women in the Netherlands and Germany.
The results of a new study show that women who apply for jobs with veiled photos receive less positive feedback from employers.
A research whose results were published a few weeks ago in a scientific journal of sociology contains strong evidence about workplace harassment against veiled women in the Netherlands and Germany.
This study, the results of which was published on July 9 in the scientific-research journal “European Sociological Review”, has examined the “consequences of wearing hijab by Muslim women when applying for jobs in three major European markets, namely Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.”
This scientific article was written by Marina Fernandez-Rino, senior researcher at the Center for Migration and Social Policy, University of Oxford, Valentina Di Stasio, associate professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Utrecht University, and Susan Witt, social psychologist and head of the DeZIM experimental laboratory. The field of writing is entered.
To conduct this research, the researchers selected a group of female participants and sent two job applications for each of them, one with a veiled photo and one with a non-veiled photo.
The jobs for which the volunteers’ resumes were sent included various jobs from hairdressers to sales assistants, receptionists, and sales representatives. All of these jobs, the authors explain, require a high degree of customer contact.
The result of the research in the Netherlands showed more discrimination than the other two countries. In this country, almost 70% of the applicants who sent a picture without hijab received positive feedback from the employer and they were invited for an interview and the next steps of employment. For applicants who submitted photos with hijab, the positive feedback rate was only 35%.
“The observation of high levels of discrimination in the Netherlands, where the cultural context has traditionally been receptive to the assimilation of religious minority groups, is surprising and shows the negative effects of recent policies for the cultural integration of immigrants,” the authors of the paper note.
