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When women ask for more, they pay for it

Fast Company·Stephanie O'Connell·3 days ago
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When Anna, a 32-year-old IT professional, started her first job, it wasn’t long before she found herself facing a bad case of job creep. “They said, ‘Hey, can you do this other thing too for a little bit? It’ll be like 10% of your time.’ But that turned into basically doing a second full-time job,” Anna told me.  So she scheduled a meeting with her manager to ask for a salary that accounted for the added responsibilities of her expanded role. “I laid it out, ‘Here’s what I’ve taken on, here’s how I’m spending my time, here’s what my days look like. Can we renegotiate a salary to compensate me for the work I’m doing?’” Anna said. Not only did her manager refuse her request, he not-so-subtly shamed her for asking. “‘You’re asking for more money? We’re a startup,’” she remembers him saying. “It was kind of like, ‘You’re ungrateful. How dare you ask for more money, even though we’re asking you to do two jobs?’”  After that initial negotiation attempt, everything felt like a fight.…

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