When it comes to gender stereotyping, it’s better to know what you’re up against.

Come to think of it, when was the last time you heard or read the word “sexism?”

That’s what ForbesWoman Community member Ann Daly, Ph.D., an executive coach and professional development specialist for women based in Austin, Texas, wants to know. She replied to a conversation thread on salary and self-esteem on our LinkedIn group. Elizabeth Miles, chief executive of a U.K.-based legal software company, started the conversation with the suggestion that women generally don’t assert their value in the workplace. “It’s as if women can feel less deserving.” (See “Salary And Self Esteem.”)

That brought in the mail. Victoria Pynchon, a commercial mediator and arbitrator at ADR Services, a Southern California alternative dispute resolution firm, had this to say: “Sexism still exists (shocked! I’m shocked!). When orchestras recently began conducting auditions behind screens so that the “jury” couldn’t see the gender of the musician, callbacks for women doubled. It’s not their fault … So let’s not go blaming ourselves.”

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