Lynne Featherstone said job applicants should not have to put their name, gender, race or age on their application forms or CVs but only their national insurance number - meaning they can then impress face-to-face at the interview stage.
Following her speech during the debate of the second reading of the Equality Bill, the MP for Hornsey and Wood Green wrote on her blog: "The key issues [with the Equality Bill] are the gender pay gap, the duty on bodies to reduce socio-economic inequality, the ending of discrimination on age in goods and services, procurement and much more.
"But one idea I floated was how to stop being disbarred from getting a job - before you even get an interview. Lots of people get thrown on the scrapheap because their name is a giveaway as to their ethnicity, sex or age."
"This is not just about discrimination that is overt - but in a pile of applications it's about also subliminal and unconscious discrimination."
MP calls for CVs to be made anonymous to avoid subliminal discrimination
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CVs should be made anonymous so recruiters can avoid "subliminal discrimination" according to the Liberal Democrats' spokeswoman for youth and equality issues.