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Study: Arabs discriminated against in prestigious professions

Simple workers are not only ones to suffer from discrimination in workplace. New survey finds 83% of employers in advertising agencies, legal firms and banks admit they are not keen on hiring Arabs, even if they have an academic degree

Most employers in prestigious professions refuse to hire ultra-Orthodox workers with an academic degree, as well as university graduates of Ethiopian or Arab descent, according to a new study conducted by the Ono Academic College.

 

Discriminating against employees from different sectors in the workplace is not a new thing. Now it turns out that the simple workers are not the only ones to suffer from it. Workers with an academic degree suffer too.

 

A study conducted in the past year among employers in different industries – including the capital market, advertising agencies, banks, law firms, and accountants' office – shows that even within the discrimination against haredi workers or university graduates of Ethiopian or Arab descent, there is an internal case of discrimination.

 

According to the findings, the group of Arab university graduates is the most discriminated against in the market of prestigious professions, followed by the group of haredi university graduates and the group of Ethiopian university graduates.

 

How to be a 'normal Ashkenazi'

One of the employers interviewed for the study, who works at an advertising agency, told the survey conductors, "The haredi, Arab and Ethiopian needs many more things in order to be like a normal Ashkenazi."

 

The study was conducted by Dr. Erez Yaakobi, Dr. Amir Paz-Fuchs and Moshe Karif. It revealed that 83% of employers are not enthusiastic about hiring Arabs with an academic degree, 58% said they were not keen on hiring educated haredi workers and 53% said they were not enthusiastic about hiring educated Ethiopian workers.

 

The study reveals that even those who have managed to cross the first ceiling discover that employers are not so enthusiastic about hiring them. Eighty-six percent of the employers said they were discouraged to promote haredi workers, 79% said the same about Arab workers, and 70% said they were not keen on promoting workers of Ethiopian descent.

 

"The highest fear in regards to employment refers to Arabs. Employers find it more difficult to promote haredim, and as for workers of Ethiopian descent, the employers believe they find it hard to deal with difficulties at work," the study's authors say.

 

"The findings reveal that the advertising and television world are the most discriminatory. In the capital market and banking sector there is a gap between haredim who have integrated into the capital market in terms of ground activity, and Ethiopian immigrants and Arabs who have not integrated at all."

 


פרסום ראשון: 11.16.09, 14:45
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