These Women Pretended To Be Men To Expose The Double Standard

It started with Bess Kalb posted this to Twitter about a friend who had solved her work problems by inventing a male assistant who handled the emailing and scheduling. 

Bess got very into the idea and decided to create a male persona of her own.

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She was even coming up with names and asking for suggestions. this is when people started responding to her with similar stories. As clever as these stories were, their very existence and need was disheartening. 

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This commenter Nikki creates a persona named 'Cole' who would always get more positive responses and prompted people into action.

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Another small business owner has a 'Mr.Nash' that does the delegation for her and buys her time. 

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Brooke was getting toxic responses and unwanted attention from males but changing her name to male one changed that situation up real quick. 

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This woman used "Greg" to do all her work for her and even had his own desk. 

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The best part about this one is that it was all legal. 

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Cliff seems to always get the job done. Employee of the year we say.

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Any female trying to start her own business can tell you this. 

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Darius gets all the respect. 

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People always seem to want to speak to the 'man of the house'

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The construction industry is notoriously male dominated. 

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Rae who has a male-sounding name has two different experiences. One online and the other in person

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It always helps to have a fake male name to make things go smoother. 

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This one's a double whammy where creatives and women both have their own roadblocks. 

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John is a generic enough name for no one to question.

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Brandy is a strange one but who even knows what works anymore. 

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While it seems light-hearted to say, it is a sign of a much larger problem that women face when working in male-dominated fields. Sending multiple follow up emails, missing deadlines and losing on payments, as a result, can have detrimental effects on female careers and make them look incompetent even though there is a systemic dysfunction that hinders their growth. 

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