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Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-things-equal dept.

sabri points out that Reddit CEO Ellen Pao plans to ban salary negotiations in an attempt to equalize pay for men and women. "After losing a sex-discrimination lawsuit in Silicon Valley last week, Ellen Pao continues on her crusade to bring gender equality to the tech world, but this time with a focus on her home turf. As Reddit’s interim CEO, Pao said she wants to eliminate salary negotiations from the company’s hiring process. In her first interview since the lawsuit, Pao told with the Wall Street Journal Monday that the plan would help level the playing field. 'Men negotiate harder than women do and sometimes women get penalized when they do negotiate,' she said. 'So as part of our recruiting process we don’t negotiate with candidates. We come up with an offer that we think is fair. 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.'"

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  1. Words in comment not meant to be racist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nigger fuck jew dumb stupid smart smarter faggot fuck tranny smelly nigger gender equality

  2. Re:Hmm by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And maybe a world class neurosurgeon is a terrible surgeon because he secrets death causing enzymes from his earlobes. I can make up excuses to justify things too.

    --
    A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
  3. Being anti-male makes women unhappy. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "misogynistic overgeneralization"

    Here is a Google Image search: anti-male. Since 1953, there has been in the U.S. a huge amount of hostility aimed toward men.

    Read the books by Warren Farrell. For example, Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap -- and What Women Can Do About It or The Myth of Male Power.

    "hyper aggressive alpha type" and "tend to view all interpersonal interactions as a contest that they need to win"

    I agree exactly with that evaluation. The way to solve the problem of people like that is to do what you do: Recognize the problem and avoid recommending someone like that.

    Read this comment below: How will you weed out sociopaths, when a sociopath is at the helm?