Comments on: Women’s earning power

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:57:00 +0000

I’ve gone back and forth on whether to comment because my experience was a while ago (17 years to be exact). When I was in college I had an unpaid internship with an advertising agency, and I also worked in another office to help pay my tuition. Upon graduation the advertising agency hired two new employees – myself and another young man. He did not have any internships or prior job experience, and his starting salary was $3K higher than mine. Of course, I didn’t know this. My department head was a woman and when she found this out she went to bat for me and I ended up with a $3K raise within the first month of being hired. That was a lot of money! Otherwise, I would have never known. Do I think this still happens? Absolutely. However, salary isn’t a general topic of conversation and is seen as a personal issue so it’s often difficult to find out that this is happening in our workplaces.

Love, love, love the Bronte Sisters Power Doll video! Thanks for sharing – made my day!

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 13 May 2010 23:27:11 +0000

"Take that you sexist pig!" Kathryn, my dear, that's the funniest thing I've seen all week. I'm going to embed it below to make it easier to view:

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:26:56 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NKXNThJ610

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 13 May 2010 10:14:01 +0000

Case closed? Come on, Ryan, the first line of that story is “While the average earnings for women still lag behind those of men…”

Silly boy.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:16:41 +0000

Here you go Cindy….. case closed!

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/women-ceos-salaries-caught-men/story?id=10630664