News from the PWN Pipeline
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.
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