Out of college, I got my first job at a decent salary. A woman I interviewed with saw the salary offer they gave me, and then promptly went to HR to demand that she at least make as much as I was offered. She had been at this company for 3 years. It shouldn’t be this hard. Women shouldn’t have to fight to make as much as men. Normalize discussing salary.
It’s everyone. Corporations screw everyone as much as they can. You think if they could hire the same equally qualified person for 30% less they wouldn’t do it in a heartbeat? Corporations care more about profits than they do being anti women (barely) otherwise every field would be dominated by low paid women. As OP, best solution is to discus wages openly so no one gets fucked over.
It isn’t just women, although it does affect us more for sure.
I used to work at a small startup making peanuts and a male colleague hired on was making even less. Thankfully, we went against the company policy of not being allowed to discuss salaries (an illegal policy in my state, btw), and managed to negotiate him up a bit.
Out of college, I got my first job at a decent salary. A woman I interviewed with saw the salary offer they gave me, and then promptly went to HR to demand that she at least make as much as I was offered. She had been at this company for 3 years. It shouldn’t be this hard. Women shouldn’t have to fight to make as much as men. Normalize discussing salary.
It’s everyone. Corporations screw everyone as much as they can. You think if they could hire the same equally qualified person for 30% less they wouldn’t do it in a heartbeat? Corporations care more about profits than they do being anti women (barely) otherwise every field would be dominated by low paid women. As OP, best solution is to discus wages openly so no one gets fucked over.
It isn’t just women, although it does affect us more for sure.
I used to work at a small startup making peanuts and a male colleague hired on was making even less. Thankfully, we went against the company policy of not being allowed to discuss salaries (an illegal policy in my state, btw), and managed to negotiate him up a bit.