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

Re:I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to ... by pseut on Friday July 12, 2013 @02:51PM (#6034377)

It's not just that, but more about why the applicant thinks that "married with kids" is important information on his or her resume. Why does he or she want to broadcast that fact (especially given that, in the US at least, it's illegal to ask a job applicant if he or she is married and has kids because of the possibility of exactly this discrimination)?

But, of course, if the applicant is qualified I should try to figure out why in the job interview, not by projecting some made up story on the resume.

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Re:I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to ... by Spooky23 on Friday July 12, 2013 @04:09PM (#6034888)

I drop that sometimes as a invitation to discriminate when I don't know alot about the organization.

If you're going to be giving me dirty looks for working less than 50 hours, have an unspoken mandatory happy hour attendance policy, 24x7 oncall, etc, I don't want to waste the time of both parties by interviewing with you.

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