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... 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 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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