YOU contain applied for a job and the interviewer asks you a question that lands like a bombshell: do you contain a boyfriend? Then another: do people find you desirable? And a third: do you think it is important for women to wear bras to work? whether you are a woman you probably know what you would do. Perhaps you would refuse to respond,complain or walk out. You would certainly be furious.
This is how 197 female American undergraduates, asked to suppose such an interview, and said they would react. But they—and probably you—were wrong. The psychologists who asked them,Marianne LaFrance and Julie Woodzicka, orchestrated a genuine-life version of this ordeal, or by advertising for a research assistant and arranging for male accomplices to interview the first 50 women who applied. Half were randomly chosen to be asked those three questions. Not one refused to respond,let alone complained or walked out. When they were asked afterwards (and offered the chance to apply for a genuine job), they said they had felt not...
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Source: economist.com