Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

You had me till "Trump".

Are you volunteering to go back?

If not, who would you be sending? are they okay with that?

The universe does not care about your hankerings, you are not that important.

If teaching women to negotiate won’t work, what could? Kray’s answer to this conundrum is an increasingly popular one among economists and researchers: ban salary negotiations altogether and set a pay range for each position, irrespective of the individual chosen to fill it. This lessens the risk of unconscious bias on the basis of gender, race, or anything else. This was the policy Ellen Pao adopted during her tenure as interim CEO at Reddit. “Men negotiate harder than women do and sometimes women get penalized when they do negotiate,” she said at the time. “So as part of our recruiting process we don’t negotiate with candidates. We come up with an offer that we think is fair.”

At the negotiation tutorial that the Post attended, a black woman named Maria Fernandes, who works for a nonprofit, expressed concern: “If I act aggressively, they’ll see me as the Angry Black Woman.” Boston’s program risks doing her a disservice if it pushes the message that her instincts are wrong. The city’s desire to give Fernandes and women like her more salary-negotiation tools is laudable. But the research suggests that focusing on how women negotiate won’t necessarily secure them their next raise, no matter how nicely—or firmly—they ask.