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Kudos to you, that's a great way of doing it.

I've worked with a few women in technical roles that decided to take more masculine versions of their names (Jackie -> Jack, Ashley -> Ash, Jessica to Jesse). For two of them it started out as a way of getting hassled less online, and the other did it as an experiment to see which resume got more interviews (surprise, the masculine name got more than double the callbacks.)



Not me, I'm just linking this here. It was submitted the other day but didn't get much attention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9092545




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