Yes, this is nothing new. Many years back, when I was a high school senior, a girl and I both applied for the same scholarship. I had slightly better grades and way better extracurriculars but she got the scholarship.

The people deciding never met us, this information and a short personal statement were all they had to go on. But I have a masculine name and that girl did not.

That was my first taste of the pervasive gynocentrism in our society. For a long time I still thought if you were the best at your work you would still be recognized and advanced, but a lifetime of watching mediocre women and minorities promoted past their more capable white male peers have disabused me of that fantasy.

Yes, this is. Nothing new. Many years back, when I was a high school senior, a girl and I both applied for the same scholarship. I had slightly better grades and way better extracurriculars but she got the scholarship.

The people deciding never met us, this information and a short personal statement where all they had to go on. But I have a masculine name and that girl did not.

That was my first taste of the pervasive gynocentrism in our society. For a long time I still thought if you were the best at your work he would still be recognized and advanced, but a lifetime of watching mediocre women and minorities promoted past their more capable white male peers have disabused me of that fantasy.