At Google, Employee-Led Effort Finds Men Are Paid More Than Women

Re:At Google, Employee-Led Effort Finds Men Are Paid More Th... by guitarbill on Saturday September 09, 2017 @11:23AM (#15207498)

> Presuming that women are in general more agreeable than man in the workplace and that they don't fight as hard and as often for raises, I would expect an otherwise equal male counterpart that is more aggressive to have higher pay. Why? Because the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

If that were true, wouldn't the salaries start off the same and then diverge? Doesn't seem to quite match up with these unofficial numbers.

Besides, at most $MegaCorp, isn't compensation reviewed periodically, and some kind of peer review is included? Which means that agreeableness is less of a factor, which means the process is working.

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Re:At Google, Employee-Led Effort Finds Men Are Paid More Th... by belorn on Saturday September 09, 2017 @11:55AM (#15207638)

I recall this programming teacher I knew with a civil engineer education. While looking for his dream job, he sent in applications for other work but demanded way above average pay while knowing that most would reject it. In the end one place did accept it which was a teacher position with the same pay as coworkers who had been in the place for 10 years.

If there existed statistics for such strategy, I wonder if it would have a gender attribute to it.

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Re:At Google, Employee-Led Effort Finds Men Are Paid More Th... by RHSeeger on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:37AM (#15218811)

> If that were true, wouldn't the salaries start off the same and then diverge?

No, because starting salary is something that is negotiable, too. And you need to push back on the offer and ask for more if you want to make more. If you're not the type to push back, you start lower.

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