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As women increasingly outnumber men in the arts, is the sector losing a crucial male perspective, asks Barry Hessenius.

I ran across an article on the Ladders website that noted the vast differences in the words that men use on their resumes vs. the words women choose.

    'The study analyzed over 200,000 resumes from around the world in four key job sectors — financial services, IT, management consulting and retail — looking at the lexical, syntactic and semantic differences in the text that distinguish male and female resumes from each other. The results found that 90% of the Top 10 words men used in male resumes are powerful proper nouns and nouns. Interestingly only 68% of the Top 10 terms on female resumes use the same."... Keep reading on Barry's Blog