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TwoXChromosomes

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Posted byHellIsRoundTheCornerin/twoxchromosomes-Jun 10, 2016 at 6:21 AMΔ

This Woman Changed Her Name to a Man's to Get a Job.

This Female Exec Changed Her Name to a Man's to Get a Job. Should You?

When Erin McKelvey applied for a job in the tech industry after finishing college in the mid-1990s, she got zero response. So she consulted a friend, who offered some advice. The friend had run into the same issue and had decided to shorten her name, Alexandra, to the more gender-neutral "Alex" on her resume.

fortune.com
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  • Hahaha_MarkJun 10, 2016 at 9:08 AMΔ

    Hardly a controlled study by any means. Way too many variables to claim what the feminists would love to claim from this.

    • CuddletootsJun 10, 2016 at 11:05 PMΔ

      How do you propose that it should be investigated then?

      • Hahaha_MarkJun 11, 2016 at 12:48 AMΔ

        I'm not proposing an idea of how it should be investigated. Just stating it's bad journalism, drawing inferences from situations like this and presenting it as fact in headlines. Perhaps I was a bit harsh to take a shot at feminists because groups all across the board do this, but this kind of clickbait journalism is absolute trash and is eroding the intelligence of our society.

      • CuddletootsJun 11, 2016 at 1:10 AM

        Well I concur that the references in the article to the survey that had been done was quite vauge and lacking, so I checked the source that they linked to. It turns out that the research institute had asked some >1000 hiring managers to rate a cv according to some factors and also to state how likely it would be that they asked the candidate to come in for an interview. The hiring managers were about half women and half men. The survey was done in Australia.

        All the hiring people got the same cv to look at, but the name attached to the cv for half of them was Susan Campbell and the other half was Simon Cook.

        Interesting results: *"Despite being the exact same CV, 38 per cent of respondents from larger organisations (those with over 500 staff) thought ‘Susan’ matched the attributes needed for the job ‘extremely well’ compared to just 33 per cent for ‘Simon’. "

        • For smaller companies the discrepancy between Susan and Simon is less, 33% vs 31%

        So on average Susan got a higher rating than Simon! But wait... wasn't it the other way around? No, but the tables turn when it's time to evaluate who actually gets to come in for an interview:

        *"We found that 62 per cent of respondents from organisations with over 500 staff said it was extremely probable that they would interview ‘Simon’. Only 56 per cent would interview ‘Susan’. "

        • "In organisations with less than 500 staff this interview bias almost disappears; 57 per cent of respondents rated it extremely probable that they would interview ‘Simon’ compared to 56 per cent for ‘Susan’. "

        Sorry for the wall of text! But I thought it was quite interesting and I sort of wished they'd put some of this in the actual article.

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