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Q&A What's the least distracting method to inform editors I'm a woman?

I once saw someone in your situation address the problem by adding a (gendered) middle name to signatures. This could either be your real middle name if you have one, or a nickname that you're pre...

posted 7y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T07:48:45Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T07:48:45Z (almost 5 years ago)
I once saw someone in your situation address the problem by adding a (gendered) middle name to signatures. This could either be your real middle name if you have one, or a nickname that you're prepared to answer to.

If it's your real name, just write it normally:

> Morgan Ann Meredith

If it's a nickname, that is, a name you're happy to have people use when talking to you _instead_ of your given name, set it off with quotes:

> Morgan "Kate" Meredith

You want to set it off so you don't end up with legal paperwork for a name that isn't your legal name. Some of my foreign-born coworkers do this with adopted western nicknames that westerners know how to pronounce and spell.

All of what I've said applies to email. For author credits in the actual articles, a middle name would be seen as normal (at least in the west) but a nickname would be more unusual. I'd skip the nickname there unless you know the publication is informal or you are well-known by your nickname (as sometimes happens with Internet personalities).

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-01-31T17:15:15Z (almost 7 years ago)
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