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

[a.l.e]

hi

einen weiteren indirekten und unfreiwilligen beitrag zum thema aus der 
schweiz:

frauen sollen zu hause bleiben aber nicht meine töchter, sagt frau dr. 
blocher...

www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/In-vielen-Familien-geht-die-Frau-arbeiten-nur-weil-es-Mode-ist/story/27046452


ciao
a.l.e
> 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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