# Job interview ethics

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-ethics/52903>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 2, 2001, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-ethics/52903 "2001-02-02T19:32:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-ethics/52903/21 "2001-02-05T15:26:00Z")

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**Jodi,** being a female and a lawyer, I’m sure you’d know better than I would, but I thought it was illegal for an interviewer to ask about your family/certain aspects of your personal life and also illegal for them to refuse to hire you based upon that information. Certainly you can volunteer the fact that you’re pregnant, but I thought they couldn’t even ask.

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