{"id":290,"date":"2009-12-15T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/?p=290"},"modified":"2009-12-15T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T16:59:23","slug":"hiding-your-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/2009\/12\/15\/hiding-your-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding Your Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever think that you might get further in your tech career if you were only a man? \u00a0James Chartrand of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/menwithpens.ca\/\">Men with Pens<\/a> <\/em>proved this theory to be correct.<\/p>\n<p>There is no such thing as gender equality in technology. \u00a0Women must consistently prove themselves to colleagues over and over again. \u00a0But try\u00a0representing\u00a0yourself as a man, and all this changes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Taking a man\u2019s 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&#8221; says James.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But your tech cred doesn&#8217;t just drop because you&#8217;re a woman. \u00a0Your race, your accent, your weight, and even your clothes all come in to play. \u00a0And forget about getting any respect while your pregnant!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not shocking to think that a person would hide behind an online persona to be judged on the merits of their work alone. \u00a0Have you tried it? \u00a0Would you like to?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyblogger.com\/james-chartrand-underpants\/\">Read more about James&#8217; story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever think that you might get further in your tech career if you were only a man? \u00a0James Chartrand of\u00a0Men with Pens proved this theory to be correct. There is no such thing as gender equality in technology. \u00a0Women must consistently prove themselves to colleagues over and over again. \u00a0But try\u00a0representing\u00a0yourself as a man, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","p1","y2009","m12","d15","h08"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}