The woman denied a job for being a mother: LinkedIn post on the employment of bias in big roles Sparks discussion

LinkedIn Post by Pragia Marketing Specialist has renewed the debate about gender bias and “motherhood punishment” in employment, especially in the upper roles. In detailing her experience during a 14 -minute telephone interview to occupy the position of CMO with a brand for consumers, she wrote that all the questions that focus about her family are almost, and nothing on her qualifications or achievements.

In the first 11 minutes, she was asked to summarize her 11 -year career. But what followed that, I claimed, was a barrage of personal questions from the company’s promoter: “Who is in my family? How many children I have? What is their age?

She wrote: “There were no questions about the revenues that I dealt with, the companies that I dedicated, or the industries in which I worked, my achievements, my failures, or the difficult projects that I provided.”

The next day, I received an update from one word from HR: “Refuse.”

“I didn’t want this job either, but think about women who have no choice.”

Although she made it clear that she was not dependent on the function, her post drew attention to a larger style: “This post is not related to my estimates, but rather a connection #or #Matratetax that women tend to push in the workplace, only because they multiply.”

Viral post went within hours, as he drew responses from working specialists, founders and employment managers – many of whom were women who faced a similar bias.

“Motherhood punishment is very real”

One of the users commented, “This is a trauma and anger. The motherhood penalty is very real, and it appears in its ways of normalization that it is almost expected.”

Another user pointed to the sharp contrast in the expectations of men and women: “It is funny that parents do not ask the same questions.”

Some also pointed to the paradox of how to treat the stages of personal life as the opponents. One commentator said: “It is not only gas and interference, but it also continues to show how stereotypes are still spreading in organizations.”

“I was on both sides, the founder and the mother refused.”

In another comment, a user recalled his rejection during the final interviews because she had a two -month -old child. “I was hurting strongly. I have carried this grudge for years,” she wrote. Now the founder of herself, she admitted that she sometimes finds herself asking similar questions: “It is not a bias. It is a fact about the sorcery of the new mother.”

However, I stressed the need for long -term solutions: “I dream of the time when the construction of a company and the construction of a family should not have to be guilty on both sides.”

“Most of the CXO roles I met by men”

Brajia concluded its post by noting that most of the upper roles that it made, through both startups and old companies, are still dominated by men. She added: “Although I have no bias against male professionals, it seems that this particular role will also be filled with a male candidate.”