This post will score me some blogosphere popularity points ;) What's up with the longwinded

job titles?  And has anyone noticed, that - in the few cases where the much coveted position is actually filled by - a man, his title is usually short.  For instance: Frank Jones, President & CEO; Robert Smith, General Manager; Cliff Larkins, Senior Loan Officer.  Meanwhile,  concerning women's titles, have to wonder if there's a wordsmith department, working round the clock to come up with titles, long enough to rival a typical sentence you'd see on a college-level term-paper.  

For example:  Phinesha Smith-Jones, Director of HeadStart Physics and Math Initiatives (uhm, how bout just "Director, HeadStart Science).  And what's with the hyphenated names?  But that's a previous post.  Here's another: Dr. Sarah Jayne Tyler, B.s., A.b.c.  

Okay, being a bit silly here, but not too silly to notice the women's titles tend to, not only be lengthy, but ... eh, tend to stretch things a bit.  But atleast the gal with the bs degree has a real first name ;/  Yep, see alot of that too, and sorry - NOT sorry - have to wonder if there's not a ton of baggage brought along to the workplace.  

Meanwhile, men have regular names:  Bob, Tyrone, George...