When Camille started using the name Cam on her resume, her phone started ringing. Were still dealing with perceptions in our culture that these are mens jobs... Its a myth! Ive met women in all trades, women who absolutely love what theyre doing. But women have problems getting an apprenticeship in the first place. Theyre not considered half the time. goo.gl/GkdAxW Further on the power of names: In New York a researcher sent fake e-mails to 6,548 professors at 259 US institutions, pretending to be students wanting to discuss research opportunities before applying to a doctoral programme. The messages were identical, bar their fictional authors, whose names were picked for being recognizable by gender and ethnicity — ‘Steven Smith’ representing a white male, for example, and ‘Latoya Brown’ for a black female. White men were more likely than women and minorities to receive a reply in every discipline except the fine arts, where the bias was reversed. Business showed the greatest disparity, with 87% of white males receiving a response compared to just 62% of female and minority students. blogs.nature/news/2014/04/discrimination-starts-even-before-grad-school-study-finds.html
Posted on: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:32:18 +0000