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In the United Kingdom, it is illegal for an employer to ask a potential employee as to their marital status or if they are pregnant, during a job interview. Despite new research compiled byCREDIT ANGELfound that 29% of women suppress their wedding rings or engagement before a hiring interview for fear of being discriminated with their marital status.

The study suggests that the reason why women do this is because they do not want a potential employer to transf up on them because they are worried, the woman will fall pregnant and must leave on leave or leave her work suffer from the demands of his personal life.

Also permanent as this news is, there are reasons why a woman could feel obliged to slide her ring to avoid uncomfortable conversation.

The same study notes that 59% of employers believe that women should disclose if they are pregnant during an interview and 46% believe that a woman should be asked if she has young children during the recruitment process .

Unfortunately, being a mother still works against women in the workplace. The study notes that a mother's salaries fall by 4% each year she is absent from the workplace. Since an average of 74% of their time is devoted to childcare, they are four times more likely than a man to leave a job because of being "Heart Sandwich" (care for children and their elderly parents). Despite the call to men to help at home anymore, the study indicates that men still spent only one week on average 16 hours doing unpaid work at home (include housework and Children), compared to 26 hours by women.

In the United States, the news is also depressing, if not more. While the federal law prohibits employers from discriminating against a potential employee on the basis of sex,It does not specifically questions about his marital status or pregnancy. Although the US Committee on Equal Opportunities indicates that "matrimonial state issues and the number and ages of children ...

In 2016,Bruce HurwitzPresident and Chief Executive Officer of the Hurwitz NYC Management Recruitment Corporation Recruitment Corporation,wrote a Viral Lamedin article titled "During the interview of a job, lose the ring!" "Detail advice that he gave a woman who was frustrated not to have a job offer:

"When a man sees this ring, he immediately supposes that you are high maintenance. When the woman in the office who has the biggest diamond on his finger, sees this ring, she will realize that if you are hired, it will fall to the second place and, so, not like you. Losing the ring! "

Two weeks later, the woman called Hurwitz to say that she had followed her advice and removed her ring during an interview and had the job. Ina follow-up position, Hurwitz said he had given the same advice to six other women, who all received the work.

Although Hurwitz's article had a lot of heat, we could say that the problem is not with his advice, because it's a thing that really happens.

Recruiters: Before interviewing a woman, ask yourself: "Is it a question that I would ask a man?" If the answer is not, you are going to counter the federal law and you are inherently dissipating an employee on the basis of sex.

Women: Keep fighting the right fight. You should not have to take your ring in an interview and you have all the right to refuse to answer personal questions. And for moreover, non-sexist advice of recruitment managers, discovery15 responses that will make a job interview.

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