Thanks, I should put in another "from my experience of 20 years of IT recruiting and mentoring women" to make it clear I'm not generalizing and what I'm talking

Thanks, I should put in another "from my experience of 20 years of IT recruiting and mentoring women" to make it clear I'm not generalizing and what I'm talking about. As a sidenote your comment about the ability of women to negotiate was not what I've said. There is a distinction between risk aversity and negotiation ability. [Edit: Science is murky here, some studies claim to have found evidence, others claim that women are better negotiators. One I found interesting, can't find it, said women are better negotiators but do not start negotiating when it is not clear that they can, but man do negotiate salaries there too.]