Interesting Features at PWN for 4.28.14

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Advice from Women on Negotiating a Raise

As national and online conversations about salary equity and negotiation evolve, NPR put out a call for women in the workforce to share their experiences of asking for a higher salary. Replies came in from women working in a variety of industries who were motivated by different factors to ask, successfully, for higher salaries. Click the link to read a handful of the negotiation strategies utilized by these women to elevate their salaries to a value commensurate with their job responsibilities and experience.


 "Tech Jobs Have a Narrower Pay Gap"

Though many industries, including medicine, law and finance still show large pay gaps between men and women, the technology sector has come quite close to eradicating that gap. For example, male and female engineering managers earn nearly equal pay. In a NY Times article, reporter Claire Cain Miller hypothesizes that the nature of tech sector jobs, with more flexible hours and independence in writing code, may close the pay gap because people are being paid in direct proportion to the hours they work instead of disproportionate pay for working longer hours.

Interesting Features at PWN for 4.14.14

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"Think of it as solving a problem."

NPR's Morning Edition features an interesting interview with Emily Amanatullah, an assistant professor of management at the University of Texas, whose work in negotiation tactics has uncovered an unusual twist in negotiation strategies employed by women. When negotiating for themselves in a simulated experiment, women asked for approximately $7000 less, on average, than their male counterparts performing the same task. When they simulated a negotiation on behalf of a friend, however, women asked for just as much money as the men.

Click the link for more on Amanutallah's findings and recommendations and to hear the interview.


"Your resume can't be good, it needs to be exceptional."

Career coach Ford Myers, author of Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring (Wiley, 2009), suggests that people are too liberal with distributing resumes that are poorly curated. Myers lists 5 'sins' that job candidates should avoid before sending their resume to a recruiter or potential employer. The sins include being vague and using passive verbs. The article is a highly useful tool for ensuring that your own resume is a strong representation of your work experience and skills.

Interesting Features at PWN for 4.7.14

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"Women in general have to outperform men just to be regarded as their equal."

Dr. Athene Donald, professor of experimental physics at the University of Cambridge, emphasizes that while gender stereotyping has caused negative effects in many fields of study, the negative impact to women in science has been particularly profound. Conscious, and often unconscious, biases as well as outdated societal expectations of women negatively influence the progress of women in research. Women in scientific areas of study are less successful in winning research grant money, are paid less than their male counterparts and are often less likely to be hired. Dr. Donald advocates for training courses focused on bringing greater awareness to unconscious bias as an initial step towards eliminating gender-stereotyping in the workplace.


Test your own unconscious biases -- the results can be surprising!

The web-based infrastructure of Harvard University's Project Implicit is designed to test the implicit associations, thoughts and feelings that occur outside of conscious thought or control. Take one of the tests on mental health or social attitudes today and test your own (perhaps unknown) unconscious biases.