Many of you stopped by to offer support when I was venting about some of the crap that I uncovered during our recent job search. THANKS to everyone! I have some exciting news on that front: a victory!!
Yesterday I was walking down the hall and I was stopped by a colleague, with whom I had several conversations about what should (or should not) be considered when choosing candidates. What he said was FANTASTIC. Here is a paraphrase:
"I was listening during our meeting the other day and I noticed that what you said was correct. Marital status only came up for the women candidates, even though the men are also married. That really pissed me off"
It's a start, right?
YAY!
😀
A good start. 🙂
yay!
I'm glad this was resolved at about Defcon-4 and didn't have to move up to Defcon-2.
Huzzah!
W00t!!! Way to go, Gerty!
Woot!
Safety in numbers. Hooray!
w00t for an ally!
Good for you! Congrats for having the courage not keeping your head down.
There's some recent evidence in the psychology literature that it's actually good to confront sexism: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2010.10.001
Also, this study has some references on the positive aspects of confronting sexism:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00635.x/abstract
Yay!! Way to go..its a good start and from small starts come great things...(I can't quite remember this phrase...sorry).
Yay Gerty! Well done!
We call this a moment of clarity. Good job.
thanks, everyone! I was very relieved/excited to hear this. It makes me feel like all my complaining was not in vain, and keep me from getting burned out (yet).I'm sorry that it took so long to respond, but I at a conference and don't have regular access to the internet (OH NOES, what am I going to do?!) 🙂
Awesomeness!
cool! You rule!
Nice job! Chalk one up for being "that (awesome) woman"!
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