Erinome: Hello dear friends! Welcome back to our daily news chat. Let's see what's happening today.
Enceladus: Hi everyone! Yes, let's dive in. Oh, there's news about the job market for new graduates.
Erinome: That's right. The article talks about the 2026 graduates. They are about to face the peak job-hunting season. A big question is: does gender affect job chances?
Enceladus: Wow, that's an important question. The report did a test. They used AI to make two fake resumes. The people on the resumes only had different genders. Everything else was the same.
Erinome: You know that? Same school, same major, same awards, same internship at a big company. They both wanted an internet product manager job.
Enceladus: They put these resumes on three job apps for ten days. And guess what? The male resume got more job offers.
Erinome: How many more?
Enceladus: The man got 78 offers. The woman got 54. So, the man got 44.4% more offers. That's a big difference.
Erinome: Oh no. That's not fair. What about the salary?
Enceladus: The salary was different too. The average salary for the man's offers was 13.1K. For the woman, it was 10.5K. So, the man's average salary was 24.8% higher.
Erinome: Sad. So, with the same experience, men get more money?
Enceladus: It seems so. Also, for high-salary jobs, you know, jobs paying more than 15K... 38.5% of the man's offers were high-salary. For the woman, only 20.4% were high-salary.
Erinome: The types of jobs were different too, right?
Enceladus: Yes, very different. For the woman, many offers were in education training and finance sales. Like, teaching subjects or being a loan assistant.
Erinome: What about the man's offers?
Enceladus: His offers were more... um... varied. He also got finance sales jobs, but with higher titles like 'partner'. But he also got many blue-collar jobs.
Erinome: Blue-collar? Like what?
Enceladus: Like ride-hailing driver, delivery driver, waiter. These jobs made up nearly 30% of his offers. Haha, it's strange, right? He has a university degree but got offers to be a driver.
Erinome: The woman got some different flexible jobs too.
Enceladus: Yes. She got offers for jobs like live-stream host, assistant host, or part-time tutor. These are lighter jobs, often work-from-home. There was even an offer for a billiards assistant coach.
Erinome: Billiards assistant coach? Wow. But the man got many more flexible job offers, mostly for drivers.
Enceladus: Another point: both resumes got offers for jobs that usually don't need a degree, like driver or billiards coach. This shows these flexible jobs are now a part of the job market.
Erinome: So, the test shows gender really does affect job chances, salary, and job type. Even with the same resume.
Enceladus: It's a bit worrying. Also, both wanted internet product jobs, but neither got the right job offers. The market is tough.
Erinome: Yes. Okay, that's it for today's news. It gives us a lot to think about.
Enceladus: Indeed. Let's talk again next time, friends. Bye!
