In recent years, multiple states have enacted Employment Nondiscrimination Acts (ENDAs) in order to prohibit workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Currently, ENDAs exist in twenty-two states, including the District of Columbia (Martell, 2013). Even though ENDAs work to end sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace, they need to be extended on a federal basis in order to be maximally effective. This is because sexual orientation discrimination still widely exists in employment today. Tilcsik’s (2011) audit study of hiring discrimination among openly gay men proves that this type of discrimination is still heavily present in the labor market. According to Martell’s (2013) study, ENDAs have had success in decreasing wage differentials for behaviorally gay men. Martell’s (2013) work shows the positive and potential impact increased employment discrimination protection could have on gays and lesbians. Since hiring discrimination is still prevalent in America, stricter policies for antidiscrimination of sexual orientation in the workplace are imperative mechanisms for increasing employment equality.
Tilcsik (2011) performed one of the first and largest audit-studies of sexual orientation hiring discrimination among openly gay men in the United States. The study stands as one of the first to examine this practice across geographic areas that differ in acceptance of homosexuality in the workforce through popular attitudes and local laws (p. 592). Audit-studies employ experimental methods in real-world employment situations. They can be either in-person audits or correspondence tests. Tilcsik (2011) implements correspondence tests, which use fictitious matched resumes to measure sexual orientation...
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...s possible; meaning, that it does not matter the employee’s background, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc. as long as they do the job the way it should be done; that is the only thing that counts. No individual should have to go through bias, stereotypical, discriminative behavior from anyone. Now that the rule is revoked it is a new beginning for every person to start new. Those people who still don’t wish to move on or don’t know how to, can be showed by others who are compliant to the new change. A Navy cadet named Andrew Atwill is a homosexual who is lastly free and fearless to embrace his sexual orientation in his base without; even his friends have no problem towards it and happily defend him when others make offensive comments towards him. Atwill says, “They don’t hesitate to tell that person it’s not cool to do that anymore.”(Brown).
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