Woman Painter vs Man Painter I've been doing some remodeling on my house and had some painting. I got bids from 3 places. 2 of them were males who came to do the estimate. The 3rd was a woman. The first two gave me quotes almost identical in the number of hours it would take and about the same total cost. The 3rd one, by the woman estimator came in at 3X the number of hours it would take.

Which means 1 of two things: She sucked ass at her job of estimating the amount of time the job would take. Or she's good at estimating but a really shitty, inefficient painter.

Suffice to say I chose between Options 1 and 2.