Guy adds “Mr.” to his resume and starts getting landing interviews - thoughts?

DavidByron · 2013-08-02T21:34:37+00:00

An anecdote from 3 decades ago by a biased source?

Quarkster · 2013-08-02T21:52:46+00:00

Men get discriminated against for "women's" jobs - nursing, teaching, etc.

Women get discriminated against for "men's" jobs - most work with a large physical component.

I don't think that's deniable. A quick look at labor statistics would show the workforce divided along gender lines.

Will this ever change? Can we truly be completely "gender blind"?

In the abstract, I think most people would agree that it is clearly morally wrong to discriminate in this way - what's between your legs should not be a factor in whether you get a job.

The question you should ask yourself is would you discriminate and if so why or why not?

If you needed to hire a bodyguard to protect yourself would you hire a 120lb woman? Would you hire a 60yr old, never married man to babysit your kids?

I'd like to think that my answer to both those questions would be yes but I'm not entirely sure that if either of these scenarios were real that it would be.

ScottFree37 · 2013-08-02T23:46:13+00:00

I work in a female dominated industry and also have a gender ambiguous name. Adding Mr to my resume dramatically reduced callbacks.

Eulabeia · 2013-08-02T22:29:33+00:00

Employing women these days seems like a huge liability a lot of the time considering their immense privilege in most work environments, so stories like this don't seem very surprising even if we assume that they are actually the result of discrimination instead of just coincidence.

Hiring a woman seems a lot like hiring a spoiled rich kid. People will tend to assume they're accustomed to special treatment, that they're unlikely to pull their own weight, they can easily pull some strings in certain places to get things their way, and they'll threaten you with a lawsuit the second anything upsets them. Feminist who enable this kind of behavior by trying to give more power for women to abuse will only reinforce these prejudices.

GenderEqualityKing · 2013-08-03T00:22:25+00:00

This will probably sound stupid, but could it be that "Kim" sounds a little ...informal, colloquial even, given the context?

Perhaps he'd have also gotten more callbacks if the name were "Kimberly O'Grady" or "Ms. Kim [Middle Name] O'Grady," etc.

2013-08-02T21:46:14+00:00

There seem to be real gender equality problems in STEM fields. CosmicKeys appears to be the expert on the issue.

I don't really know which thoughts you want to have?

The point of mensrights is not to say that women don't have to deal with sexism. They do.

PriveledgedCon · 2013-08-03T22:41:33+00:00

This would make for an interesting study if it was conducted in different fields

Babill · 2013-08-02T22:41:22+00:00

/r/thatHappened

dakdego · 2013-08-02T21:39:57+00:00

There are sexists in the world, which sucks.

Title	Guy adds “Mr.” to his resume and starts getting landing interviews - thoughts?
Author	masterofthehaus
Upvotes	3
Comments	15
Date	August 2, 2013 8:54 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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