Re: Women creating pay gap
- From: "Heidi Graw" <heidigraw@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:19:28 GMT
"Society" <Society@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The phony "pay gap" is inadvertently revealed
as phony by Microsoft's misandrous Ms. Network:
_Women creating pay gap?_
A new study finds female professionals
lower their bills to maintain client relationships
By MSN Staff with wire services
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/ConsumerActionGuide/WomenCreatingPayGap.aspx
Excerpt:
Female professionals often charge less
than their male counterparts for the same work,
preferring a strong client relationship
to higher pay, according to a study
to be released this week at the annual
meeting of the Academy of Management.
Society wrote:
No word from Microsoft's Ms. Network article
on why women choose do cut-rate work rather than
work harder to produce a product whose excellence
cements client relationships.
The article claims:
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"Women take into consideration their customers, and they take into
consideration their associates," Gilly said.
"For women, their relationships with customers matter, their relationships
with people they work with matter, and it doesn't seem to matter for men,"
she said. "Men just price the same, regardless."
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Imo, men tend to push the limits...they'll test to see just how much they
can get away with. This same thinking goes with their pricing
practises..."How much can I get away with charging someone for my services?"
Where I differ with Gilly is with her inference that men are somehow
uncharitable and inconsiderate. Having dealt with all sorts of
professionals in my own life, I find that men will be just as likely to be
charitable when they come across hard-luck cases. However, before they act
charitable, they will first explore with their clients other options from
where the client may receive the necessary funds to pay for the services
rendered. Are there grants to be had? Are their loan options available?
Can they pay in installments, etc? They don't just accept that the client
has no access to funds. They will grill them first. And once that male
professional is convinced enough that his client is indeed low on funds, I
have seen them lower the prices or they'll even provide service for free.
So, women might just not be grilling their clients to the same degree as the
men do. And neither might these women gamble quite so much by pushing the
limits. All too many professional women tend to be too timid...they don't
want to risk being criticised by their clients or their co-workers. Men
tend to be less concerned about things like that. They're not quite so
worried about offending anyone!
Imo, female professionals are simply going to have stop being so insecure
and emotionally sensitive if they want to achieve the same pay-rate as their
male counterparts. It's o.k. to push the limits. It's o.k. to ask for
more. Risk that criticism. Spend time with empoverished clients to explore
other payment options....and only after all other avenues have been
exhausted, *then* do that charity work. This is something men do, women can
do the same.
Heidi
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