Job interview DON'Ts

A few days ago, we had a young (26 or so) grad student giving a job talk. In academia, a job talk is what it sounds like -- a talk faculty job candidates give about their current research.

So the speaker is giving his introduction and emphasizes that his work looks for genes related to aging.

"So you can see this is an important issue, especially for the ladies."

The funniest part is this wasn't an offhand, foot-in-the-mouth comment: it had the stiffness of a rehearsed joke!

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I hope someone called him out on that crap! I hate it when people passively condone that type of sexism by just letting it pass without comment.