Not exact matches
What she finds is that in districts where teachers are legally able to
negotiate salaries and benefits — through either collective bargaining or a
less structured «meet - and - confer» process — dropout rate decline by 6 percent and 4.5 percent, respectively.
Given that women are
less likely to
negotiate salaries or rise to executive positions not only because of sexism, but because they are
less likely to be assertive in ways that the workplace rewards (Wade, 2001).
This story demonstrates another common reason that women (and not just women lawyers) are paid
less than men — they fail to
negotiate a high enough
salary when they start out in practice or when they switch firms.
In fact, an international poll conducted by Monster found that
less than one in five respondents (19 percent) are very comfortable with
negotiating their
salary upon accepting a job offer.
Millennials are also
less comfortable with
negotiating salary (30 percent) than Gen X (26 percent) and Baby Boomers (25 percent).
(In fact, the majority of employers are open to
negotiating salary, yet
less than half of job candidates even try, according to CareerBuilder research.
In fact, more people are paid
less than they're worth because they do not know how to effectively
negotiate their starting
salary.
Readers — Have you ever been reluctant to
negotiate salary, only to find out that you're making
less than average for your position?