5 tips for women to negotiate a higher salary

<a href="https://www.pay-equity.org/day.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Equal Pay Day</a> falls in 2023 on March 14 — a date determined by how long into the new year American women must work to catch up to American men’s earnings the previous year. In 2022, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/03/01/gender-pay-gap-facts/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">women earned 82%</a> of what men earned. The wage gap for Black and Hispanic women is even higher — these groups made <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/03/01/the-enduring-grip-of-the-gender-pay-gap/#gender-pay-gap-differs-widely-by-race-and-ethnicity" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">70% and 65%, respectively</a>, of what white men made. Some of the gender pay gap can be attributed to differences in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjab026" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">how women negotiate</a>. This is not to say that women don’t negotiate as well as men, or even less often. Women are negotiating well and self-advocating in their careers every day — sometimes <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ncmr.12153" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">more actively and effectively</a> than their male counterparts. Women have been observed to <a href="https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2017.1497" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">negotiate exceptions</a> to typical work or business practices more than men. This includes, for example, negotiating a remote work arrangement prior to the pandemic. <a href="https://medium.com/the-conversation/5-tips-for-women-to-negotiate-a-higher-salary-f51877ff9275">Read More</a>