[Metalab] 'I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume and landed a job'

[Benjamin Schwarz]

Echt schlimm so was.

Ich bin ja nicht ganz von dieser Welt, aber ich kann mir echt überhaupt
keinen Grund vorstellen, warum man eine Bewerberin rein aufgrund ihres
Geschlechts ablehnen sollte. Ich würde ja noch verstehen, wenn
angesichts der Situation (verheiratet mit Kindern) beim
Bewerbungsgespräch taktvoll eruiert wird, wie es mit der Kinderbetreuung
ausschaut (eventuell mit Hinweis auf den Firmeneigenen Kindergarten),
aber das sollte man wiederum auch bei Männern klären.
Selbstverständlich kann man in den allermeisten Fällen sowieso davon
ausgehen, daß die Bewerberin Arbeit und Familie vereinen kann, aber wir
wollen ja nicht zuviel auf einmal von den Personalbüros verlangen.

Bläh. Das erinnert mich wieder an eine Idee, die ich vor einer Weile hatte:
An große Firmen viele Bewerbungen mit jeweils gleich guter Qualifikation
schicken und nur Geschlecht/Rasse/Religion ändern. Das ganze könnte man
dann statistisch auswerten und veröffentlichen. Weiß wer, ob das schon
mal (in Österreich) ernsthaft gemacht wurde?



Am 13.07.2013 09:55, schrieb Boyang Xia:
> Wahrscheinlich lesen viele von euch Hacker News. Für jene, die das
> nicht tun, ist hier ein interessanter Artikel über Frauen in der
> Berufswelt.
> http://qz.com/103453/i-understood-gender-discrimination-after-i-added-mr-to-my-resume-and-landed-a-job/:
>
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>
>
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