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Both featured a gender-ambiguous name, 'Taylor Williams.' The only difference between the test and control resumes was the presence of gender pronouns on the test version," McGonagill said in the report. "The test resume included "they/them" pronouns under the name in the header." She/her and he/him pronouns were not tested.

The phantom resume including pronouns received 8% less interest than the one without, and fewer interview and phone screening invitations.

Seems out of step with the headline. Could be that putting "pronouns" is what hurts your job prospects, rather than which you specify. I wouldn't put my star sign on a job application either. Seems irrelevant.

Actually it could be something to do with companies not wanting to get sued - there are rules in many places in the world where companies are legally obligated to not discriminate on the basis of "protected characteristics". To some degree these can be inferred or predicted from stuff you're supposed to put on your CV - like your education and work history is predictive of your age, but if you explicitly put your age on your CV, and age is a "protected characteristic", could be some companies just put it in the bin, so they can't be accused of favouring people based on their age.