Kids can often teach adults some important lessons. For example, 11-year-old Ruby teaches compassion, consideration, and generosity of spirit. She saw residents of a nursing home who were sad, missing the little pleasures in life, and she did something about it. Read about what she did, why, and the results at 11-Year-old Girl Has Been Granting the Simple Wishes of Nursing Home Patients.
An investor and entrepreneur who also also teaches entrepreneurship at UC, Santa Barbara, has come up with a way for women to get good jobs in the tech industry: use your initials or a gender-neutral name on applications and profiles. This will hide the fact that you’re female. In fairness, John Greathouse apologized later for his statement. But it points out how rampant gender bias is in some industries.
See Wall Street Journal article. Click the X in the upper right corner of the ad to get rid of it. If the Journal won’t let you in, get to it via this other article.
Of course, women poets and writers have had to use this trick since the beginning of time–even JK Rawlings. Only, though, if they wanted their work to be published and they weren’t a celebrity.
The point is, Greathouse is just reflecting the thoughts, beliefs, and biases of a large number of people. I think it’s interesting that rather than offering a solution to solve this societal problem, he offered a way to cover it up and continue it.
Women have real worth: they’re cheap. That’s why the filthy-rich founder of an online advertising company hires them. They do the work of men, but he doesn’t have to pay them as much.
Well, at least he admits it.
Read this fascinating article by Sarah Gray. And take note that this is happening in America as well as in Australia–and where else?