Perth resident Kim O'Grady finally landed a job after attaching a "Mr" in his name on his CV. And in doing so, not only did he discover the secret to getting employed, but gender discrimination in workplace Australia as well.

In his blog post titled "How I Discovered Gender Discrimination," Mr O'Grady, a management consultant, needed a job in the late '90s when he decided to switch jobs. With qualifications, experience, and successful track record, he was confident that there would be "plenty of opportunities" for an experienced guy like him.

However, he was not prepared for the rejection letters that kept coming in. He did not even get a single interview from employers. It then dawned on him that it was his name that was wrong with him.

"I had fortunately seen a number of CVs in my time. I was happy with the choice of style and layout, and the balance of detail versus brevity. I was particularly pleased with the decision I made to brand it with my name with just enough bold positioning to make it instantly recognisable, and as I sat scouring every detail of that CV a horrible truth slowly dawned on me. My name.

"My first name is Kim. Technically its [sic] gender neutral but my experience showed that most people's default setting in the absence of any other clues is to assume Kim is a woman's name. And nothing else on my CV identified me as male," he wrote.

"My choice to brand the CV with a bold positioning of my name actually seemed to scream that I was a woman. I could easily imagine many of the people I had worked for discarding the document without even reading further.

"If they did read further the next thing they saw (as politeness declared at the time) was a little personal information, and that declared I was married with kids. I had put this in because I knew many employers would see it as showing stability, but when I viewed it through the skewed view of middle aged men who thought I was a woman, I could see it was just further damning my cause. I doubt if many of the managers I had known would have made it to the second page."

So he made one significant change: "I put Mr in front of my name on my CV." And the result was astounding.

"It looked a little too formal for my liking but I got an interview for the very next job I applied for. And the one after that. It all happened in a fortnight and the second job was a substantial increase in responsibility over anything I had done before. In the end I beat out a very competitive shortlist and enjoyed that job for the next few years, further enhancing my career."

His blog post gathered over 2,000 comments, and was republished by several news agencies. The popularity of his article prompted him to write another one to explain how he came to the conclusion that sexism is rampant in Australia.

"What has been most surprising about this whole experience is not one person has challenged my version of the events," he said. "Twitter is full of reactionary trolls that will argue with you on far less anecdotal issues, but I have yet to see one response that has called my story into question.

"I have also not seen a single example of anyone declaring that my story is only relevant to my local experience as an Australian. It's been shared widely throughout the USA, Canada and the UK, and I have even seen a few links from outside the anglosphere. Yet everywhere it is greeted with knowing assent."

According to the Australian Social Trends released in December 2012 by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, although women in the country have more employment opportunities and more educated than before, men still outnumber women when it comes to senior level positions across both the public and private sectors.

Women also remained underrepresented in most senior corporate positions within the top 200 Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) companies.

Workplace Gender Equality Agency released in February 2013 that 15.4% of directors in the ASX 200 companies are women, and that there are 52 companies that do not have a woman on their board.

Mr O'Grady concluded: "Gender discrimination is real and it damages women, and removing gender discrimination needs leadership from men. It needs men who are not afraid to sacrifice their own artificial privilege in order to achieve genuine and equal rights for all."