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I hid the fact I had children in job interviews - it's the only way to ...
When author and mother-of-two Davina Quinlivan was interviewing for new roles online five years ago, she would hide all evidence of her two children, moving Mother’s Day cards, their artwork and stray Pokemon cards. Quinlivan, author of recently published Possessions: A Memoir of Transformation in an Era of Precarity, felt she needed to give each interview “the best shot” and couldn’t take the risk of motherhood “impacting me, even a small amount”. As an academic who has spent much of her career teaching feminist theory, she found it deeply conflicting. “It’s a difficult feeling, because why would I do that? It’s so painful to pretend to vanish [my children] away. Yet I know on some unconscious level that people interviewing are thinking: ‘Well, if this child is unwell, our teaching schedule goes down.’ Of course, there is support for working carers, but you have to jump through the hoops of getting the job in the first place,” she explains. “I wanted to give myself opportunities. I don’t think there were vast numbers of mums being interviewed for these jobs, and I knew who would get those jobs in the end – and they weren’t mums.” She’s one of an increasing number of women who have felt the need to hide motherhood during job interviews. Peanut, the world’s largest community app for mums, ran a poll exclusively for The i Paper and found that the majority of mothers – 60 per cent – don’t mention caring responsibilities during job interviews, while six per cent actively hide any trace of motherhood until they are offered a role. This compares with 34 per cent of mums who actively mention their children in interviews, the poll of 580 mothers found. “We’re seeing more mothers concealing their children from interviewers, which underscores the need for our working culture to catch up. When honesty becomes a hiring risk, the problem isn’t with the candidate – it’s with the system,” Michelle Kennedy, CEO of Peanut, believes. You might think caring responsibilities should never be discussed in a job interview. But research consistently shows that men can actually experience a “fatherhood premium” – where having children actually increases their chances of getting hired. In one study, professor Stephen Benard at Indiana University sent identical fictionalised CVs to companies from female and male job “candidates”, some mentioning their volunteer work for the Parents Teacher Association. Fathers received a slightly higher callback rate than childless men, while em...
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