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I applied for a job role a few months ago and was rejected after they prompted me asking for lots of personal information, such as age of my children (I don’t have any), my date of birth, my marital status, etc. A whole raft of questions that could be interpreted as targeting me based on my sex and the perception that I might have (or soon have) children.
Today I’ve been informed that they want to settle with me for a small sum of money. Not great but still feels like a victory.
I’d really recommend trying to challenge employers using ACAS or Employment Tribunals and I might be recording interviews in future as I am sometimes asked these sorts of questions in interviews even though it is obviously discriminatory. Any interview where being a woman is mentioned results in no job offer. I have let far too many instances of this slide and I’m not prepared to walk away any longer.