I am totally fascinated by this thread. Rachel, I do remember you posting on a list about how you suspected you had some issues with jobs because of your name.

It’s very strange, I came from a background in telecom in the Northeast US, and it was the only field I saw where race, sex, or education didn’t play a role so much as could you get the job done. Not sure how that came about, but it probably had to do with opportunity and chance. When I went to film school, we learned that a lot of early film editors were women because it was considered a menial task…and the good fortune of those editors to reap the rewards of that kind of oversight.

Maybe we need something like that to happen web development? (just kidding.) It saddens me in this day and age that we still have these kinds of conversations.