[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 �ber 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. 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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