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It's not just kids, is it? That's too middle brow at these firms. It's perfectly acceptable for a woman to graduate from the firm to be a full-time "socialite" or join the charity circuit. "Playboy" is about as close as it gets for a man, and not nearly as acceptable.

It's a different kind of sexism, but a higher-class one.

You could say that of a male who can afford to play polo - that signals a lot a family wealth - therefor they don't need your white shoe job as much.

If, as the saying goes, women marry upwards, then the bias could also be explained by how attainable they're perceived to be.

edit: Lol. My goodness, HN does not like that idea much.

I'm sorry?

What?

I think it's an idea worthy of some discussion. Perhaps companies destined to mint a raft of 10x-millionaires would show different hiring trends--although I recognize the extreme difficulty of gathering adequate clean data.

If the idea is that men are trying to hire women they can marry then you should probably take into account the fact that cross-class marriages have become very uncommon.