Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Does A Child's Name Matter?

I had an interesting conversation with a young woman today regarding her children's names. She stated that she intentionally gave her children "race neutral" names so that their race wouldn't be identified by human resource decision makers during a potential hiring process. This young woman works for a major university in our country, and stated that she sees name discrimination every day during the hiring process.

It was an interesting discussion, so I just wanted to make a written note of it. Should we think twice before naming our children? I'm not sure, but perhaps it's worth pondering.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesting!!
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