Hillary Clinton is a 68-year-old woman. And plenty of people hate her for it.
Hillary Clinton is a 68-year-old woman. And plenty of people hate her for it.
- October 6, 2016
- Research by David Neumark, economics, in The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, Oct. 6, 2016
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Another study − this one done last year by economists at the University of California, Irvine and Tulane University − looked at what happened when 40,000 fake resumes carefully created to reflect a breadth of age-appropriate experience were sent out for all kinds of jobs in cities across the country. And yup, you guessed it. The number of callbacks for older women was way lower than for younger women.
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