Blaming
Women's Choices for the Gender Pay Gap
Attributing women’s lower pay to their own lifestyle
choices is seductive. At first blush, this argument
sounds reasonable. However, a closer look reveals
that the language of “choice” obscures
larger social forces that maintain the wage gap and
the very real constraints under which women labor.
Confronting
the Gender Gap in Wages
Women are winning the numbers game in the workforce.
They now fill almost half of the country’s managerial
jobs. Despite equal representation among the ranks
of wage earners, however, women continue to come up
short in their paychecks.
Blaming
Women's Choices for the Gender Pay Gap
Attributing women’s lower pay to their own lifestyle
choices is seductive. At first blush, this argument
sounds reasonable. However, a closer look reveals
that the language of “choice” obscures
larger social forces that maintain the wage gap and
the very real constraints under which women labor.
Learning
to Ask
Our studies show that women are much less likely than
men to use negotiation to get ahead and get what they
want. All the negotiation advice in the world is useless
if you never get to the bargaining table in the first
place.Learn to ask!
The
Gender Wage Gap: Debunking the Rationalizations
Higher levels of education increase women’s
earnings, just as they do for men. However, there
is no evidence that the gender gap in wages closes
at higher levels of education. If anything, the reverse
is true: at the very highest levels of education,
the gap is at its largest.
Gender
Wage Gap: Are you paid as much as a man if he had
your job?
Women working full time still earn only 77 cents for
every full-time male dollar. If you’re a woman,
what would you do with that extra 23 cents—an
increase of nearly one-third on top of your current
77-cent paycheck—a raise that brought you up
even with men?
Listening
to Women: New Perspectives on Negotiation
Negotiation is the way that business gets done today.
And women—the newest entrants to the business
world—have powerful insights into the negotiation
processes needed in today’s fast-paced environment.
Sex
Discrimination: What should you do now?
So you know you’re facing unfair sex discrimination
on the job. Maybe you found out your employer is systematically
paying women less than men for the same work. Or you
got fired as soon as you said you were pregnant. Or
your male coworkers have been groping and propositioning
you and the other women relentlessly, and the company
won’t make them stop. Should you sue?
Occupational
Ghettos
See the latest research showing there are still a
great many occupations that are segregated by gender.
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