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Muslim Job Candidates Face Discrimination

Posted on Tuesday, 30 May, 2017Thursday, 21 May, 2026 by Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

A Middle Eastern woman wearing a pink hijab stands in a room, with her arms crossed

A new study shows women with “Muslim” names have to send 1.4 times as many job applications as women with Anglo-sounding names to be considered by employers, and women in hijab need to send 4.5 times as many applications.

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Posted in Race and Culture, UncategorisedTagged Australia, racism, Sociology

I’m Dr Zuleyka Zevallos; a Peruvian-Australian applied sociologist, living on Wurundjeri Country of the Kulin Nation, in Naarm (Melbourne).

I pay respects to the Wurundjeri people, and their Elders, past and present. Their sovereignty has never been ceded. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

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