The Working Class Face a Class Ceiling

The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations - The New York Times

"So important is class, the paper found, that the effect on one’s career prospects appears to loom as large if not larger than that of race or gender. For example, Dr. Stansbury and Ms. Rodriguez found that women who earned Ph.D.’s and stayed in academia received tenure just as often as men, once the researchers controlled for research output. Black scholars were less likely to get tenure than white scholars, but didn’t pay a price in terms of the prestige of their university.

Only the children of working-class parents appeared to experience a kind of double jeopardy — not only did they get tenure less often but at less prestigious universities.

Some of the gains for women and nonwhites appear to reflect efforts to combat discrimination or provide greater opportunity to members of these groups, interventions that are less common when it comes to class."

This doesn't surprise me. If you don't have the right clothes, jewelry, look, mannerisms of the wealthier classes, often they won't hire you. Academia seems the worse in this too. I noticed myself certain behaviors were expected from more upper-class people. My own personal experience is they are far more reticent. This doesn't mean "bad" just something I noticed. There are definitely "class-codes" that affect things out in the world. I noticed in the teaching world years ago, middle class women often who were married to men with good jobs, had a far easier time finding full contract/better school district teaching jobs.