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by dirkstoop 5905 days ago
Maybe she (he?) has stumbled upon the single most important mechanism by which any single gender dominated industry self-compensates.

(I'm assuming here that - since the author emailed mostly males - this field is predominantly male; I have no facts to back up that assumption)

Would love to see a similar study into replies to emails from male/female aliases to professionals in a predominantly female field.

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I've been reading this blog (really, letting it pile up in google reader) for some time now, and though I can't point you to a specific post, I'm pretty sure I remember the author being a he.