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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On this side I want to extend just a bit from Tara's mention of street harassment. Long, long ago, when I was a college student who was typing for a faculty member, a sociologist sat down next to me to work on an article about street harassment. If I remember correctly, following Goffman, she thought that any woman on the street was fair game because women weren't supposed to be out in public. This is similar to strangers reaching out and touching pregnant women. Ugh! I've thought about that comment many times since then, especially when I read articles such as Street Harassment Escalates.
Both women were attacked for refusals to engage with their male harassers. One was killed. The other had her throat slashed but she was expected to live.
One blogger at The Frisky offers mansplanations for the continuing street harassment.
There's a Harvard Law Review article on making street harassment a real crime. I'll send details via kosmail if anyone wants to read more.
Things to look forward to--more Republican advertising directed at women voters!