If Women Want To Be Paid Better, Why Don’t They Just Ask for It?

She was a successful executive working for one of my client companies. And she had one of the most severe cases of the ‘Not Like Other Girls’ syndrome I’ve ever come across. Perhaps that was precisely part of her success: convincing men that she wasn’t like all those other women. Because women tend to lack the ambition, confidence and competitiveness required to ‘make it’ in today’s world, which still overwhelmingly only values qualities in proximity to the ‘masculine’ ideal. But the same logic is also frequently used to justify women being paid less for comparable work than men, a disparity known as the gender pay gap. We just don’t ask to be paid more. We just don’t want to go through all of these doors that have been apparently wide open for a while now. Well. I regret to inform everyone who believes that to be the case that the latest evidence suggests women have been asking to be paid more. But like with many other issues, we aren’t listened to. Go figure. <a href="https://medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sphere/why-women-dont-ask-for-better-pay-is-the-wrong-question-to-ask-61d92adc982">Click Here</a>