An examination of what's truly driving gender inequity and the gender pay gap in the workplace, why companies should be committed to addressing it and how women working in tech can advance their own careers (and salaries!) while we all wait for the world to change.

1. When Karma
Won’t Cut It
Disrupting the Status Quo
as a Woman (or Male
Advocate) in Tech
#SIC16
Lydia Frank
VP, Content Strategy, PayScale
@Lydia_West

2. “It's not really about asking for
the raise, but knowing and
having faith that the system will
actually give you the right raises
as you go along
"Because that's good karma. It'll
come back because somebody's
going to know that's the kind of
person that I want to trust.”
- MicrosoftCEO Satya Nadella
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3. Someone will notice
how hard I’m working,
right?
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4. Source: The Wall Street Journal, September 2016

5. Source: TED.com

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7. Source: “Inside the Gender Pay Gap,” PayScale, November 2015

8. Women are underrepresented in the
best-paying jobs in our society.
Women choose to work in lower-paying fields

9. -54
-43
-34
-21
-18
-60
-50
-40
-30
-20
-10
0
Recreation Jobs Ticket Agent Designer Housekeeper Biologist
Pay Drop in Percentage Points As Field Becomes
More Dominated By Women (1950-2000)
Drop in Percentage Points
Source: “As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops,” The New York Times, March 2016
As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops

10. Source: “Inside the Gender Pay Gap,” PayScale, November 2015

11. Source: “Inside the Gender Pay Gap,” PayScale, November 2015

12. -9.4%
-7.6%
-5.9%
-5.2%
-4.5%
-4.5%
-4.1%
-4.0%
-10.0% -9.0% -8.0% -7.0% -6.0% -5.0% -4.0% -3.0% -2.0% -1.0% 0.0%
Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations
Production Occupations
Construction and Extraction Occupations
Management Occupations
Sales and Related Occupations
Transportation and Material Moving Occupations
Business and Financial Operations Occupations
Controlled Gender Pay Gap By Job Family
Male vs. Female
Source: “Inside the Gender Pay Gap,” PayScale, November 2015

13. The Social Cost of Negotiating
• Female candidates penalized more than male candidates for
initiating negotiations (by male and female evaluators.)
• Even when evaluators deemed female negotiators competent
and gave them what they asked for, they didn’t want to work
with them.
• Men significantly more inclined to work with female candidates
who accept their compensation offers without comment –
described them as “nice” and “less demanding.”
Source: “Social incentives for gender differences in the propensity to initiate negotiations: Sometimes it does hurt to ask,” Bowles, Babcock & Lai, June 2005

14. The Social Cost of Negotiating
“Women get a nervous feeling about
negotiating for higher pay because they are
intuiting — correctly — that self-advocating for
higher pay would present a socially difficult
situation for them — more so than for men.”
- Hannah Riley Bowles
Harvard Researcher / Sr. Lecturer
Source: “Why Women Don’t Negotiate Their Job Offers,” Harvard Business Review, June 2014

15. Our bigger problem?
The Opportunity Gap

16. Source: “Women in the Workplace 2016,” LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company, September 2016

17. Source: “The Perception Gap,” PayScale, March 2016

18. The Lake Wobegon Effect
Photo by Andreas, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License

19. “Men need to step up to the plate. We
benefit from the system of inequity, we
hold a position of privilege, and far too
many of us are blind to the fact that
this is a problem that occurs within our
sphere of control.”
- Matt Wallaert
Behavioral scientist & co-creator of GetRaised.com
Wanted: Male Advocates

20. Because it’s 2015.

21. Source: The Huffington Post, October 2016

22. Diverse Teams & Leadership
=
Better Profits & Performance
Source: “The Diversity Advantage,” Ruchika Tulshyan
Numerous Studies Have Shown…

23. Source: “2015 Catalyst Census: Women And Men Board Directors,” Catalyst.org

24. Source: “2016 Annual Corporate Directors Survey,” PwC, October 2016

25. Source: “2016 Annual Corporate Directors Survey,” PwC, October 2016

26. Long-Held Beliefs About Gender Won’t Shift Overnight
Source: Google search result

27. Long-Held Beliefs About Gender Won’t Shift Overnight
Source: Google search result

28. Unconscious Bias in Action
Source: Isis Anchalee

29. Source: Isis Anchalee

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31. What can you do?

32. Personal Strategy:
CommunicateYour
Career Goals (Repeatedly)
Photo: Angie Torres, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License,

33. Personal Strategy:
Don’tWait to Be Called On
Photo: Public Domain

34. Personal Strategy:
BuildYour Amplification
Team
Source: White House women want to be in the room where it happens, The Washington Post

35. Personal Strategy:
Forge a Path But Draw a
Map
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36. What can employers do?

39. Company Strategy:
C-Level Commitment
Photo: K2 Space, Creative Commons Attribution License

40. Company Strategy:
Measurement
Photo: Public Domain

41. Company Strategy:
Transparency
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42. Resources
Books
• The Diversity Advantage by RuchikaTulshyan
• Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a SexistWorkplace by Jessica Bennett
• Unfinished Business: Women MenWork Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Websites
• GetRaised.com
• FairyGodBoss.com
• TaketheLeadWomen.com
• Levo League
Groups
• ChickTech
• Seattle Girl Geek Dinners
• PayUp (Washington Post Slack channel for women to discuss the pay gap / negotiation)

43. Questions?
#SIC16
@Lydia_West
@PayScale