Lean Out: The Dangers for Women Who Negotiate
sad but deadly truth...for woman.. u will be considered as a bitch if you negotiated hard ... but... for man... you will be considered as being assertive........ life can never be fair game June 11, 2014 - Posted by Maria Konnikova This spring, an aspiring professor—W, as she’s chosen to call herself in a blog post about the experience—attempted to negotiate her tenure-track job offer with the Nazareth College philosophy department. She wanted a slightly higher salary than the starting offer, paid maternity leave for one semester, a pre-tenure sabbatical, a cap on the number of new classes that she would teach each semester, and a deferred starting date. “I know that some of these might be easier to grant than others,” she acknowledged in her e-mail. “Let me know what you think.” Nazareth didn’t hesitate to do just that: W wrote that the college promptly let her know that she was no longer welcome. “The institution has decided to withdraw its offer of employmen...