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This sounds terrible. Job applicants who “sound” gay are less likely to get hired, according to a new study in Archives of Sexual Behavior. Researchers found that male applicants whose voices were perceived as feminine (admittedly a subjective value), and women whose voices were viewed as masculine, were at a disadvantage when it came to be hired or promoted. They also found this bias was only held by heterosexual men. “The participants had minimal information about the candidates,” Dr. Fabio Fasoli of...