A survey among Russian head-hunters carried out on June 9-12, 2011 by Research centre of recruitment portal Superjob.ru under the order of "Kommersant - Money" publication showed that 25% of Russian companies were not ready to accept people with non-traditional sexual orientation as its employees.
A gay would be rejected in every fourth company, most refusals are seen from small companies where less than 50 people were employed (31%): "This sexual orientation is a vice, perversion and illness that undermines moral cornerstones of the society and family values. I do not like it and believe that non-traditional orientation does bad for teamwork and its micro climate", say HR managers of these companies.
Almost every fifth employer (21%) was not ready to answer the question, saying that "many things depended on the team and company's profile. For example, it was dangerous for a gay to work with male staff of the company, i.e. in warehouse. But it was easy to accept a gay designer to a mixed team", said one recruiter. The other said that he had never asked a candidate about his sexual orientation. But if he behaved like a drag-queen and he is "obviously open" it was more likely that he would be refused to offer a job. "Our company is not a gay club nor a circus".
54% of employers would not refuse to offer a job for a qualified LGBT person, if he will be "adequate person with required qualification": "We are looking for an employee and not for a sexual partner". Say respondents. The bigger the company - the easier for GLBT person to find a job there. Big companies (with more than 5 000 employees) seem to be more loyal to sexual minority (64%).
Employee's personal attitude to gays and lesbians heavily depends on his profession. Most homophobic attitude is showed by security guards (19%), qualified workers (15%) and planners (11%). Among them the number of those who would sever every contact with GLBT colleague is the highest: "I can't bear them!".
The decision to limit contacts with "odd" colleague is often made by work superintendents (30%), programmers (22%) and security guards (21%).
Among those who would not change their attitude to a man or a woman, if they would have known that they were gay or lesbian, are tourism managers (90%). Gay-friendly are also insurance managers, psychologists, secretaries (89%), commercials managers, PR-managers and beauty-saloon masters (88%) - "I was always interested in the psychology of these people", "Gay or lesbian... What's the difference? He (She) is Human!".
You are welcome to see the results of the survey on www.Superjob.ru (automatic translation >>).
English translation presented by Yerdna Bananes