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It's absolutely sexism that salary negotiations favor behaviors that men are comfortable with and women are not.

• darawk 9y ago
  No, it isn't. The world doesn't need to be designed to produce equality of outcome. Just equality of opportunity. Women may choose to negotiate less, and that's fine. They'll get paid less. If women want to choose to negotiate more, they can do that too, and be paid more. If you want to argue that it's sexist that we socialize women to negotiate less, i'm all for that, though.
  • johnfn 9y ago
    > If you want to argue that it's sexist that we socialize women to negotiate less, i'm all for that, though. If that's the road you feel comfortable walking down, I think it's fine to compromise at that point. Regardless of how it happened, the result - women not negotiating - is still the same.
    • darawk 9y ago
      Yes, but how you get there matters. If society is socializing women to negotiate less, that's society's fault and society should try to correct that. If women are simply biologically predisposed to negotiate less, that's nobody's fault and women can try to correct it if they want, or not. But it's not a social, collective problem.
• bllguo 9y ago
  To me this is moot. At this point you're fighting against the natural inclinations of the human mind. I'd pick my battles more carefully. There are other issues related to sex that are much easier to attack, with much greater potential impact.