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“Babcock wondered if this might be true in other areas of their lives, so she ran an experiment with Carnegie Mellon alumni who’d recently graduated with master’s degrees, asking them about starting salaries in their new jobs. It turned out that 57% of the men had negotiated their starting salaries, while only 7% of the women had, even though the school’s career services department strongly advised negotiation. As a result, men had starting salaries that averaged 7.6% higher than women’s.”
Women at work: ‘Forget the balance. This is the merge’ | Money | The Guardian
Stephanie Booth is a freelance internet geek who lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. Digital Crumble is where she dumps all sorts of interesting stuff she finds online.
