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You have it exactly backwards. In a competitive market, hiring managers have every incentive to negotiate workers to take lower salaries. As it turns out, for v
by jballanc 11y ago
You have it exactly backwards. In a competitive market, hiring managers have every incentive to negotiate workers to take lower salaries. As it turns out, for various reasons, when forced to negotiate for salary women end up taking less than men. (More info here -- http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/04/08/300290240/why-women-dont-ask-for-more-money http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/04/08/300290240/why-w... -- and plenty more a Google away.)
- webXL 11y agoSo the theory is that women are concerned about their reputations, so they ask for less than their male counterparts. But with the people that a female candidate would be working with, only the hiring manager would (should) know. I think this has more to do with the rather recent changes of women in the workplace than women managing their reputation, but what do I know? > You have it exactly backwards. In a competitive market, hiring managers have every incentive to negotiate workers to take lower salaries I never stated anything to the contrary. You're talking about profit-maximizing behavior that we all engage in everyday. What I said had to do with deliberate discrimination, which can only be profitable if the market participants all agree to it.