Do women need to think like men to achieve pay equality?
Interesting quiz today on the BBC that asks you how you feel about pay issues. Despite men and woman having seeming equality now for many years, the average female manager still earns around £13,000 less than their male counterparts, with the gap rising recently rather than falling. Interestingly it doesn't seem to get any better the further you look up the career ladder. At executive level women will earn around 25% less than men. The article suggests that much of this is down to attitude towards pay, that men will generally simply ask for more money than women. Interesting stuff.
Anyway, here's the quiz, see how you get on and report back.
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Haha, I get a 'female tendency' as a result. This is due to the fact I have never tried to arrange any form of pay increase. But that's only because I'm on the bottom rung and still an intern :)
Intersting quiz - if you follow it through to conclusion there will be several men who earn less than colleagues because they don't ask for it - and I have seen this happen. One manager I worked for had a presumption that if you didn't ask for it you didn't get it - thus he had several managers at a lower level of pay than colleagues not because they didn't do such a good job but becuase he could get away with it which made it easier to 'reward' those who made waves.
The answer, presumably, is to get women to ask for more more often?
I'm coming to work in a skirt and high heels tomorrow! Either that or my leopard skin trunks, beating my chest and demanding a pay review to accentuate my masculinity. Me hunter gatherer.....