Interactional discrimination against hijab-wearing women in public places: field experiments
Résumé
The notion of interactional discrimination is proposed to designate a so far unexplored mechanism of ascriptive inequality. The notion is illustrated through three randomized field experiments in public places showing that women who wear the islamic headscarf or hijab are exposed to interactional discrimination. Two experiments in the Paris metro relying on sensibly different procedures indicated that men decrease eye contact when they hear a woman speak to them if the woman wears the hijab. A third experiment in the same setting exposed a sample of women to this pattern of gaze, which was systematically replayed by a male confederate while women spoke to him. The experiment reveals that women who are the target of the “hijab-gaze” hold the floor for shorter periods of time, experience more negative affect, perceive that the interlocutor pays less attention, and are more easily persuaded.
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