I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume

Re:I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to ... by nmcfarl on Friday July 12, 2013 @02:05PM (#6034037)

Of course you need men to change their attitudes - the majority of people at the top of the food chain are male, and they’re the ones that make the hiring decisions.

But you are right - it’s not an exclusively male problem, and woman are perfectly capable of discriminating against other women, and do, frequently, and often unconsciously.

In the end society as a whole needs to change how it views women, and how it acts upon those views.

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Re:I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to ... by speeder on Friday July 12, 2013 @03:57PM (#6034812)

When you got your resume thrown out because you have a female sounding name, it has NOTHING to do with higher ups, whoever threw the resume out was HR, and thus very probably a woman.

A problem might exist, but targeting the wrong target won't fix it, stop blaming the "higher ups" for decisions (conscious or not) taken by the ones that took those decisions.

I very much doubt there is a company where the CEO made a explicit rule for the HR don't hire any women.

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Re:I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to ... by anon808 on Friday July 12, 2013 @04:57PM (#6035146)

Or the resume wasn't thrown out by the HR person. It was passed along to the department hiring manager, which is what actually happens 100% of the times where the resume fits the job description, and it was the department hiring manager who then threw it out.

But I can see your point, let's just assume it was the HR person that threw out the resume. And since we're in assumption land, let's assume the HR person was a woman.

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