Are You Negotiating Your Salary or Absorbing a Systemic Gap?
There is a moment that determines more long-term wealth than most investment decisions. It happens in a meeting room, on a call or in the final paragraph of an offer letter.
A (salary) number is presented and too often, highly capable women accept it without testing its elasticity.
Globally, pay disparities remain persistent and measurable. In the United Kingdom, the Office for National Statistics reports that the gender pay gap among full-time employees remains around 7–8 per cent, widening to over 14 per cent when part-time work is included.
The gap increases significantly with age and seniority, particularly in finance, technology and executive roles where bonus differentials are pronounced. In financial and insurance activities, median hourly pay gaps have exceeded 20 per cent in recent reporting cycles. In the United States, the Bureau of Labour Statistics reports that women working…
My Response,
We need a BBC Coverage to bring this to the forefront of the public.
We need women of colour to come forward and together we hold ministers accountable- we should be able to speak out without victimisation. Victimisation of women of colour is no different from a gangster that harm others in the world.
We need the Human Right Commissioner to act to protect BAME women with a system that works. We need the Commissioner to meet with Black Women and hear their experiences across the country before changing the law.
Until we take the bull by the horn, nothing will change. Mandela had to be imprison for 27 years to free blacks. The same for Martin Luther King. We need laws that work not laws that organisations have mastered the art of building policies to cover up and systems that are tick box exercises to cover up systemic racism.