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What an excellent illustration of gender discrimination.

Why James Chartrand Wears Women's Underpants | Copyblogger

I was still bringing in work with the other business, the one I ran under my real name. I was still marketing it. I was still applying for jobs -- sometimes for the same jobs that I applied for using my pen name.

I landed clients and got work under both names. But it was much easier to do when I used my pen name.

Understand, I hadn't advertised more effectively or used social media -- I hadn't figured that part out yet. I was applying in the same places. I was using the same methods. Even the work was the same.

In fact, everything was the same.

Except for the name.

The answer was plain. Without really thinking much about it, I tried an experiment when I chose my new pseudonym: I became a man (in name only)

Taking a man's name opened up a new world. It helped me earn double and triple the income of my true name, with the same work and service.

No hassles. Higher acceptance. And gratifying respect for my talents and round-the-clock work ethic.

Business opportunities fell into my lap. People asked for my advice, and they thanked me for it, too.

It is not a conspiracy of evil men in a smoke-filled room, it is thousand of individual decisions where males are assumed more competent then females almost every single time. Because that is how a culture of discrimination works.

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by A swedish kind of death on Wed Dec 16th, 2009 at 08:04:36 AM EST
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Thats just what I thought when I came across it.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Dec 16th, 2009 at 08:08:56 AM EST
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