Years ago I applied for an IT job at a large city in Southern California.
100’s of people took the exam. Before I even started they had a sign posted. +10 Points for being ex-military, +10 for being a woman, +10 for being a minority. So I was already 30 points down before even starting the test.
3 years later they called me in for an interview and told me that I had actually scored the highest in the group but that they had to hire others first. Since those people had 3 years of experience they would be my boss and how did I feel about that.
I couldn’t hide the body language so I didn’t get the job.
At the time I really needed the job as the job I was working at had an unethical owner.
“I couldn’t hide the body language so I didn’t get the job.”
Pushed your glasses up with your middle finger? #8^)
That’s a tough call; on the one hand, some useless token will take credit for your work, while on the other hand, you will have 100% job security. I’ve worked for men and women, and always felt more secure with the female bosses - they couldn’t be bothered with the real details of work, so could never train a replacement. Not to slam women in general - I’ve worked with and for some great female minds. Some in management just seemed to feel companies were too cowed to fire them for sub-par performance (and a couple were right - more were wrong).