You know how job applications always end with a request for you to self-identify yourself voluntarily? This regards your sex and race. Should one do so? While not doing so keeps the review of your resume objective, it can (a) show you are defiant and (b) you might get eliminated after bothering to go through the interview process.
So, what do you do?
… And that would be illegal. Proving it is another matter entirely.
In my recent job search, I typically received the self-identification form after submitting my resume. So, I’d send the resume to the search committee and then get a form letter back along with the form and an envelope. Typically the envelope went directly to the HR office, while the search committee was in charge of the interview process. So, yeah, I filled them out, no problem.
I always decline to state. I am morally opposed to such surveys.
Haj
I always fill them out.