“It’s nice to have some numbers to put to this.” “I wonder if the lack of a big gender gap means we’re starting to see the effects” of focus on the issue, she says, noting Pew doesn’t have historical data for these questions. Still, the relatively narrower difference between men and women who asked for higher starting salaries could be a sign the drumbeat about pay equity is having an impact, Parker says. Pew’s results appear to underscore that the issue is less that women disproportionately don’t ask for higher salaries-but that they face obstacles when they do make those requests or worry about how they will be perceived when they negotiate. When broken out by gender, 38% of women who asked for a higher starting salary said they did not get more pay, while only 31% of men who negotiated were stuck with their initial offer. Meanwhile, there was also a big difference in the results women saw from their requests versus men. Only 33% of men said they didn’t feel comfortable asking for higher pay, compared with 42% of women. The additional data released does show a much wider divergence on how comfortable men and women feel about asking for higher starting salaries and how successful they were in their efforts.
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