Man-hating (Married to black queer racist) Reddit CEO Ellen Pao bans salary negotiations

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Ellen Pao may have lost a Silicon Valley gender discrimination
suit on all four accounts, but she isn’t backing down on a
mission to increase gender equality in the tech world.

Pao has been interim CEO of Reddit, an entertainment and news
website, since November. In her first interview since the
verdict of her case, she told the Wall Street Journal on Monday
that one of her moves to increase Reddit’s diversity includes
banning salary negotiations for new employees.

Men, Pao told the Journal, often negotiate more aggressively
than women, leading to higher salaries.

“We come up with an offer that we think is fair,” Pao said. “If
you want more equity, we’ll let you swap a little bit of your
cash salary for equity, but we aren’t going to reward people who
are better negotiators with more compensation.”

Adam Grant, a professor at Wharton who has partnered with
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on her Lean In campaign, supported
Pao’s decision.

“The research evidence is overwhelming that men tend to
negotiate more aggressively than women,” Grant said to Mashable.
“The data are also clear that when women negotiate assertively,
they are often penalized for violating communal gender
stereotypes.”

A Yahoo article pointed to a study that found when women
negotiate, both men and women are less likely to want to work
with them. But don’t expect a quick fix for gender equality from
Pao’s move, UC Hastings law professor Joan Williams says.

“Does [ending salary negotiations] mean it will be better for
every single woman? No, that’s not how things work,” Williams
said to Yahoo. “But if you want to eliminate an advantage men
have because of these prescriptive stereotypes, then this is a
clear way to do it.”

PBS NewsHour’s “Ask the Headhunter” columnist and Silicon Valley
headhunter Nick Corcodilos explains that one of the reasons he
believes women get paid less, coming from his experience with
executives who decide salaries, is “largely due to an ingrained
sense that ‘women don’t need to earn as much,’” despite the
notion that salary should reflect experience, not gender.
Additionally, he explained, approaching a company for a job is
one of the negotiating “hot spots,” or an opportunity for
candidates to boost their pay.

In addition to banning salary negotiations, Pao has made other
efforts to improve Reddit’s diversity, including bringing in
Freada Kapor Klein, the founder of Level Playing Field
Institute, an organization working to diversify workplace. Pao
also said candidates are asked about their views on diversity,
and that they “did weed people out because of that.”

Pao first gained attention when she sued Kleiner Perkins, a
venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California, in 2012 for
passing over her for a senior partner role because she is a
woman. She was eventually fired from the job. The jury decided
in late March that her gender was not the reason she was not
promoted.

Despite losing her case, women in the tech industry have
continued to show support for Pao. Shortly after the verdict, a
group of women in the tech industry collectively took out a full-
page ad in a Palo Alto newspaper reading “Thanks Ellen.”

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/reddit-ceo-ellen-pao-bans-
salary-negotiations/

Comments:

rhasa1 • 12 days ago
I have no idea why this creates so much stir.
Go elsewhere, let them be.
Obviously mediocrity is good enough for idiots.
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novictim • a month ago
Leave Reddit and its cesspool of censorship and banning.

Go to VOAT.co
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coltov mocktail • 2 months ago
horseshit of the highest magnitude
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tensacross • 2 months ago
heres contemporary hysterical feminism in a nutshell:
because women allegedly dont negotiate for higher salaries as
well as men do,
reddit's "feminist" ceo has banned ALL employees from
negotiating for higher pay. take the low rate youre offerred or
leave it.

so now everyone has to suffer with a low pay rate, with no
recourse -- because of the weakness of women.

and feminists hail this as a victory.
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Ferret Ferretson tensacross • 2 months ago
No, feminist do not. Because feminist believe in actual
equality. Social Justice Warriors hail this as a victory.
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Elias Rachid • 2 months ago
Yes, there is no negotiation: you pay what I ask, or more, or I
go elsewhere. Instead of fighting gender income inequality,
which doesn't exist, Pao should concentrate on business
fundamentals.
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