[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 �berhaupt
keinen Grund vorstellen, warum man eine Bewerberin rein aufgrund ihres
Geschlechts ablehnen sollte. Ich w�rde ja noch verstehen, wenn
angesichts der Situation (verheiratet mit Kindern) beim
Bewerbungsgespr�ch taktvoll eruiert wird, wie es mit der Kinderbetreuung
ausschaut (eventuell mit Hinweis auf den Firmeneigenen Kindergarten),
aber das sollte man wiederum auch bei M�nnern kl�ren.
Selbstverst�ndlich kann man in den allermeisten F�llen sowieso davon
ausgehen, da� die Bewerberin Arbeit und Familie vereinen kann, aber wir
wollen ja nicht zuviel auf einmal von den Personalb�ros verlangen.

Bl�h. Das erinnert mich wieder an eine Idee, die ich vor einer Weile hatte:
An gro�e Firmen viele Bewerbungen mit jeweils gleich guter Qualifikation
schicken und nur Geschlecht/Rasse/Religion �ndern. Das ganze k�nnte man
dann statistisch auswerten und ver�ffentlichen. Wei� wer, ob das schon
mal (in �sterreich) ernsthaft gemacht wurde?



Am 13.07.2013 09:55, schrieb Boyang Xia:
> Wahrscheinlich lesen viele von euch Hacker News. F�r jene, die das
> nicht tun, ist hier ein interessanter Artikel �ber 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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