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

[Boyang Xia]

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. 
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/ideasatwork/feature/7219454/Like+Daughter,+Like+Father

On 13/07/13 09:55, Boyang Xia wrote:
> 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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