Ask HN: If you are a Woman in IT, how much do you make?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8554355

by byEngineer • 12 years ago

11 3 12 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

Do you feel your pay is worse than your male - counterparts (the same field and experience) ?

kstenerud• 12 years ago

How you "feel" about your pay isn't helpful. You need to know:

- IS your pay worse than your male counterparts?

- IS your employer aware of this?

- WHAT is their reaction to this?

- WHAT do you plan to do about it?

sdotty• 12 years ago

As a woman in IT, if your pay is less than your male counterparts, it may not be that you are less competent, and it may not even be that your employer is biased. It may be that your employer is simply paying you a market wage, which is lower for you than for your male counterparts because there are other employers who are biased against you, therefore the demand for you is less. Its about supply and demand, not necessarily bias from your specific employer. Its bias from the market as a whole. However, there is cold comfort in knowing that you are competent and more valuable than others paid the same as you.

Mimu• 12 years ago

How come it's "the market fault" and not the employers fault? Like the market is a living thing without related to the people in it.

Ask HN: If you are a Woman in IT, how much do you make?

Related Stories