Man With Pen Is Actually A Woman? What? Blogging & The Glass Ceiling

Chartrand has been all over the ‘net for years, blogging at Copyblogger, FreelanceSwitch, FreelanceWritingGigs and basically everywhere else freelance web writers hang out.

He’s a she.

James, who still wants to be known as James, says that when she started writing, it was a desperate attempt to avoid the welfare line.

And she did well.

But.

But I was still having a hard time landing jobs. I was being turned down for gigs I should’ve gotten, for reasons I couldn’t put a finger on.