I would appreciate your patience with me. This is my first diary in many, many years. Thank you Tara for the opportunity.
In the midst of discussions about the status of women in the tech industry, as Tara noted, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stepped up to make his contribution to the War. At a conference named after Grace Hopper, the person who figured out how to compile computer programs and invented COBOL, Nadella also said
he has more trust in and gives more responsibility to women who don't ask for raises.
New York Times
In the article, references are made to several researchers on women, raises, and negotiations. Linda Babcock, the Carnegie Mellon scholar, is featured in Harvard Business Review in an article titled "Nice Girls Don't Ask!" Hard to move forward or lean forward under these circumstances.
But we’ve discovered another, subtler source of inequality: Women often don’t get what they want and deserve because they don’t ask for it. In three separate studies, we found that men are more likely than women to negotiate for what they want. This can be costly for companies—and it requires management intervention.
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