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Is this meant to be satirical? Being male makes me able to lie about my GPA? Being female causes gaps in your resume? "Being able to lie about your GPA and pos
by reefoctopus 11y ago
Is this meant to be satirical? Being male makes me able to lie about my GPA? Being female causes gaps in your resume?
"Being able to lie about your GPA and possibly get away with it due to the Freedom of Information Act that forbids the release of college/university transcripts to employers. This is how male Computer Science students are able to land internships, co-op positions, or entry-level jobs in reputable high-tech companies where their female classmates have failed, sometimes even when the latter had earned higher grades. "
"Not having the stigma of possessing a long resume gap due to a period of unemployment because of discrimination. Unemployment, usually regarded as the mark of an underperforming individual, may actually affect perfectly competent women that were just as competent as the men around them before being laid off or fired. They couldn't hold onto their jobs because being twice as good was expected, rather than being just as good."
- silverlight 11y agoI think some of these are definitely a bit on the side of hyperbole such as the ones you listed there, but I think as a whole this is a solid list of things that it's worth reading while considering ways in which you or your colleagues may have unconsciously had a bias that you may not have recognized. It certainly opened my eyes the first time I read it on a number of fronts (I had read it previously).