Engagement and wedding posts

The six questions

1. 1. Is it related to the job?

   Marital plans are not a lawful or reliable basis for predicting someone's career.

   Fail
2. 2. Does it stand in for who someone is?

   Tracks marital status (direct), gender (strong). The signal is marital status.

   Fail
3. 3. Is it the right person?

   Family members often post the photos.

   Concern
4. 4. Did the candidate publish it, and would they expect an employer to use it this way?

   Wedding and engagement photos are commonly posted by family.

   Fail
5. 5. Does it work equally for everyone?

   Applies to anyone photographed publicly.

   Pass
6. 6. Is there a less intrusive way?

   No less intrusive way to learn the same thing was identified.

   Pass

Evidence

• Code on Wages 2019, s.3: no gender discrimination in recruitmentIndian law

  Employers may not discriminate on the ground of gender, including transgender identity, in recruitment, wages or conditions of employment for the same or similar work. The Code replaced the Equal Remuneration Act 1976 when the four labour codes took effect on 21 November 2025.

• A retail company's recruiting model learned to penalise women (2018)Evidence

  Amazon abandoned an experimental résumé-scoring model after finding it downgraded résumés containing the word "women's" and graduates of two women's colleges. It had learned from ten years of mostly male applicants' résumés.

• GDPR Article 9: special categories of personal dataReference only

  Data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health, sex life or sexual orientation may not be processed except under narrow conditions.

Where it fired in the sample

• Priya Raman · Facebook · English · posted by someone else

  “So happy to announce our daughter Priya's engagement! Wedding next spring. 💐”