when karma won't cut it: disrupting the status quo as a woman (or male advocate) in tech

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When Karma Wont Cut It Disrupting the Status Quo as a Woman (or Male Advocate) in Tech#SIC16

Lydia FrankVP, Content Strategy, PayScale

@Lydia_West

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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.

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Someone will notice how hard Im working, right?Photo by Ray S. - Creative Commons Attribution License

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Source: The Wall Street Journal, September 2016

Source: TED.com

The reason this makes us angry is because its 2016 and women are being told they have to mask their gender to get hired in the tech industry. Why is this still an issue? Dame Stephanie Shirley launched a software development firm in the 1960s that mostly employed female programmers working from home (many of them mothers). To get business, she had to resort to signing her name Steve rather than Stephanie. It worked. 5

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Source: Inside the Gender Pay Gap, PayScale, November 2015

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

Source: As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops, The New York Times, March 2016As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops




The Social Cost of NegotiatingFemale 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 didnt 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

The Social Cost of NegotiatingWomen 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. LecturerSource: Why Women Dont Negotiate Their Job Offers, Harvard Business Review, June 2014

Our bigger problem?

The Opportunity Gap

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

Men are 30% more likely than women to be promoted to that first management role16

Source: The Perception Gap, PayScale, March 2016

The Lake Wobegon EffectPhoto by Andreas, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ - Everyone cant be above average. Its not possible. Similarly, every workplace cannot be above average in terms of gender equity when data shows us that women and men do not have equal opportunities for advancement in the U.S. workforce. 18

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 WallaertBehavioral scientist & co-creator of GetRaised.com

Wanted: Male Advocates

Because its 2015.

Source: The Huffington Post, October 2016

Diverse Teams & Leadership = Better Profits & PerformanceSource: The Diversity Advantage, Ruchika TulshyanNumerous Studies Have Shown

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

Source: 2016 Annual Corporate Directors Survey, PwC, October 2016

Source: 2016 Annual Corporate Directors Survey, PwC, October 2016

Long-Held Beliefs About Gender Wont Shift OvernightSource: Google search result

Long-Held Beliefs About Gender Wont Shift OvernightSource: Google search result

Unconscious Bias in ActionSource: Isis Anchalee

Source: Isis Anchalee

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What can you do?

Personal Strategy:

Communicate Your Career Goals (Repeatedly)Photo: Angie Torres, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License,

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Personal Strategy:

Dont Wait to Be Called OnPhoto: Public Domain

In other words, Ask forgiveness, not permission. Just start doing. 33

Personal Strategy:

Build Your Amplification TeamSource: White House women want to be in the room where it happens, The Washington Post

2/3 of Obamas top aides were men when he took office, women started using amplification strategy, parity in 2nd term34

Personal Strategy:

Forge a Path But Draw a MapPhoto by I-A-Graphix, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License


What can employers do?

https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity-programs-fail37

https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity-programs-fail38

Company Strategy:

C-Level CommitmentPhoto: K2 Space, Creative Commons Attribution License

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Company Strategy:

MeasurementPhoto: Public Domain

Measure the right things pay equity isnt enough. Look at things like promotion velocity.40

Company Strategy:

TransparencyPhoto by Brett Jordan, Creative Commons Attribution License

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ResourcesBooksThe Diversity Advantage by Ruchika TulshyanFeminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace by Jessica BennettUnfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter

WebsitesGetRaised.comFairyGodBoss.comTaketheLeadWomen.comLevo League

GroupsChickTechSeattle Girl Geek DinnersPayUp (Washington Post Slack channel for women to discuss the pay gap / negotiation)

Questions?#SIC16

@Lydia_West@PayScale

when karma won't cut it: disrupting the status quo as a woman (or male advocate) in tech

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