Hair Colour Discrimination
Comparing Hair colours
Hair colour and CEO stereotyping in the UK [https://slidedocument.org/hair-color-stereotyping-and-ceo-selection-in-the-united-kingdom]
The sweet colour of an implicit request [https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-2767651631/the-sweet-color-of-an-implicit-request-women-s-hair] gives a quick overview of research on hair colours and details of their own study about how hair colour influences altruism.
The Economic benefit of being blonde [http://www.aabri.com/manuscripts/141934.pdf] reports that Ango waitresses get more tips after they dye their hair blonde.
Which hair colour induces the strongest physical Attraction? [https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/slightly-blighty/201509/which-hair-color-induces-the-strongest-physical-attraction] suggests that blonde women are most attractive and redheads the least attractive in a nightclub situation. The article they cite most is Hair colour and courtship [http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1007/s12646-012-0158-6] . these finding are parallelled in his other research which includes Women's hair colour and hitchhiking [http://www.communicationcache.com/uploads/1/0/8/8/10887248/hitchhiking_womens_hair_color.pdf] and . Interestingly, these results were only seen in male candidates, suggesting that hair colour of female strangers is not important to other women.
A more complex version of this experiment (which follows the nightclub aspect with discussions based on photographs) can be found in British Men's Hair colour Preferences [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2011.00911.x/abstract;jsessionid=5F43D0B60A9EB0BCEB36263AE99264B6.f03t02]
Red Hair
Red: A History of the Redhead [http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/red-a-history-of-the-redhead-review--whats-racism-got-to-do-with-it-20150830-gjb3pa.html] includes a history of how redheads have been celebrated or discriminated against through history and popular culture. Ms Carmyn has ordered a copy of this book.
Why are redheads more sensitive? [https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/love-sex-and-babies/201104/why-are-redheads-more-sensitive] suggest that the gene for red hair includes increased sesitity to pain, possibly accounting for the stereotype of redheads as quicktempered. Articles cited here include: Increased Sensitivity to thermal pain and reduced subcurtaneous Lidocaine efficacy in Redheads [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1692342/] and Anaesthetic requitrement is increadssed in redheads [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1362956/] .
Another study, Does the 'ginger gene' offer the key to younger lokking skin? [https://www.nhs.uk/news/2016/04April/Pages/Does-ginger-gene-offer-key-to-younger-looking-skin.aspx] suggests that the gene for red hair keeps redheads looking younger by limiting cellular inflammation.
Why are redheads more sensitive? [https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/love-sex-and-babies/201104/why-are-redheads-more-sensitive] suggest that the gene for red hair includes increased sesitity to pain, possibly accounting for the stereotype of redheads as quicktempered. Articles cited here include: Increased Sensitivity to thermal pain and reduced subcurtaneous Lidocaine efficacy in Redheads [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1692342/] and Anaesthetic requitrement is increadssed in redheads [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1362956/] .
Another study, Does the 'ginger gene' offer the key to younger lokking skin? [https://www.nhs.uk/news/2016/04April/Pages/Does-ginger-gene-offer-key-to-younger-looking-skin.aspx] suggests that the gene for red hair keeps redheads looking younger by limiting cellular inflammation.
Blonde Hair
Are blondes really dumb? [http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2016/Volume36/EB-16-V36-I1-P42.pdf] Uses data from a 1985 to correlate hair colour and IQ information, showing that there is no statistically relevant difference between hair colour and intelligence, once controls for race are removed from the equation (this is important because IQ tests are widely criticised as being biased toward White Western culture). He summarises his research here [https://theconversation.com/are-blondes-actually-dumb-56560] and Brian Resnick has critiqued the methodology used in this research [https://www.vox.com/2016/3/24/11301070/dumb-blonde-stereotype-myth].
Blonde Ambition: Are brunettes paid more because they're worth it? [https://www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/Pages/Blonde-Ambition-Are-Brunettes-Paid-More-Because-Theyre-Worth-It.aspx] suggests that it is harder for blondes to get a serious job but that they can move up the ladder once they are known within a business.
Discrimination / Laws
anecdotes: Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination has a sidebar about redheads which states that less that 1% redheads were not bullied because of their hair colour. This book is also likely to have theoryyou can slot your research into...
do dress codes relate to hair colour
what are lawsaround dress code discrimination in Oz?
fair work ombudsman [https://www.fairwork.gov.au/how-we-will-help/templates-and-guides/fact-sheets/rights-and-obligations/workplace-discrimination]
victoria has a law that includes hair colour [https://books.google.com.au/books?redir_esc=y&id=dEelDQAAQBAJ&q=red+hair#v=onepage&q=hair%20colour&f=false] or see screenshot left
Is gingerism as bad a racism? [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6725653.stm]
what are lawsaround dress code discrimination in Oz?
fair work ombudsman [https://www.fairwork.gov.au/how-we-will-help/templates-and-guides/fact-sheets/rights-and-obligations/workplace-discrimination]
victoria has a law that includes hair colour [https://books.google.com.au/books?redir_esc=y&id=dEelDQAAQBAJ&q=red+hair#v=onepage&q=hair%20colour&f=false] or see screenshot left
Is gingerism as bad a racism? [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6725653.stm]
Black women (in the US) and hair-based discrimination
Black women speak out about natural hair discrimination [https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-women-natural-hair-bias-discrimination] Read this and reconsider your white priviledge!