Re:I only got that job because I’m a girl
by snogglethorpe on Thursday September 27, 2012 @11:08PM
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> (I would very much believe, however, that in bartending, it's stacked against men.)
OTOH, bartending is a customer-facing business, and partially entails "entertainment" (e.g. the bar-tender talking with the customers), so in many cases there's an actual business reason to prefer female bartenders (when most customers are men who prefer talking to a woman bartender).
OTOH, bartending is a customer-facing business, and partially entails "entertainment" (e.g. the bar-tender talking with the customers), so in many cases there's an actual business reason to prefer female bartenders (when most customers are men who prefer talking to a woman bartender).
No such excuse exists in software development...