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

[Boyang Xia]

Bin ich dank der Metalab-Mailingliste gender-sensibilisiert, oder sind 
in der letzten Zeit viele Links auf Hacker News über Sexismus?
Women as Job Perks, Again: 
<http://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2013/07/women-offered-perks-job-ad>

    Let me know which of the following would tempt you from you desk…

     1. Keg of beer and beer tap fitted to your development desk?
     2. The recruitment fee as your welcome gift?
     3. 4 day week?
     4. Building your own team of 4 from scratch
     5. Shares and equity (so dull)
     6. Commission from online sales.
     7. An endless jar of Cadbury chocolate eclairs…
     8. 4X *female* french, italian and spanish junior / front and
        backend developers
     9. Your own Expresso /[sic]/ coffee machine with frothy milk maker…
    10. 30 days paid holiday if taken in December and August.



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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