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Originally Posted by hvert
Yeah, it gets to me too. It's the pay gap that drives me crazy. I'm really tired of having more experience and knowledge and making less money. My boyfriend tells me that the idea of pay gap is a myth, but it sure doesn't seem to work that way in IT. Are men just better at negotiating salaries? I don't get it.
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Not only that, from what I've read - if a male negotiates hard for his salary while starting a new job, he's seen as strong, determined, and basically in a positive light. It's normal and expected. If a female does the same thing, she's seen as a... not very nice word that starts with a "b"
At any rate, I guess I'm fortunate that I haven't run into too much blatant sexism in my jobs... although when I graduated from college (computer science degree) ~15 years ago, at the graduation ceremony - there were 2 females (me being one of them) getting "highest honors". We had to line up by "honors", so the 2 of us were first in line (there was a guy as well, but he skipped the ceremony). The male prof who was organizing the line jokingly asked if they were giving us "pink dipolomas" too
I wish I had said something smart, but I was pretty hurt/upset, talk about discouraging!