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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Ein weiteres Hacker News link on gender
discrimination: When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for
women at their firms goes up, narrowing the persistent gender wage
gap.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/ideasatwork/feature/7219454/Like+Daughter,+Like+Father">http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/ideasatwork/feature/7219454/Like+Daughter,+Like+Father</a><br>
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On 13/07/13 09:55, Boyang Xia wrote:<br>
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Wahrscheinlich lesen viele von euch Hacker News. Für jene, die das
nicht tun, ist hier ein interessanter Artikel über Frauen in der
Berufswelt.
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href="http://qz.com/103453/i-understood-gender-discrimination-after-i-added-mr-to-my-resume-and-landed-a-job/">http://qz.com/103453/i-understood-gender-discrimination-after-i-added-mr-to-my-resume-and-landed-a-job/</a>:<br>
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<p>My choice to brand the CV with a bold positioning of my name
actually seemed to scream that I was a woman. I could easily
imagine many of the people I had worked for discarding the
document without even reading further. If they did read
further, the next thing they saw (as politeness declared at
the time) was a little personal information, and that declared
I was married with kids. I had put this in because I knew many
employers would see it as showing stability, but when I viewed
it through the skewed view of middle-aged men who thought I
was a woman, I could see it was just further damning my cause.
I doubt if many of the managers I had known would have made it
to the second page.</p>
<p>I made one change that day. I put Mr. in front of my name on
my CV. It looked a little too formal for my liking but I got
an interview for the very next job I applied for. And the one
after that. It all happened in a fortnight, and the second job
was a substantial increase in responsibility over anything I
had done before. In the end I beat out a very competitive
short-list and enjoyed that job for the next few years,
further enhancing my career.</p>
Where I had worked previously, there was a woman manager. She
was the only one of about a dozen at my level, and there were
none at the next level. She had worked her way up through the
company over many years and was very good at her job. She was
the example everyone used to show that it could be done, but
that most women just didn’t want to. It’s embarrassing to think
I once believed that. It’s even more incredible to think many
people still do.<br>
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