Women workers at bargain basement prices (poem)…
Are women a cheap pair of stilettos you buy at TJ Maxx?
Or do we deserve equal pay for breaking our backs?
Women also contribute to the bottom line.
The pay gap between men and women is really a crime.
So this Monday I address the issue in my column, go here.
Maybe it will help women learn how to cheer
for themselves when they enter the negotiating lair.
Women armed with cojones! Work world beware.
Ok, update. I got quite a few emails responding to my MSNBC.com column on women and the art of negotiation. Most of the comments were supportive, some weren’t. But even those responses made some good points…except this one:
Why do even waste your time writing such nonsense, real studies show women make more than men with comparable jobs not less plus all sorts of costly entitlements the rest of us pay for because of their gender. Women in the work force are a joke, their insatiable emotional needs and special treatment they demand make them a burden not a positive. Women like you know longer have credibility you don’t know how to support an arguement with facts and men have caught on to you behaving like a child to get your way, if women were really a value businesses would perform better than they use to not much worse like they do. Get over it man hater/society destroyer.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Hey Eve, read the piece on MSNBC and wanted to leave a comment but didn’t see that functionality.
I also wrote a piece on my blog: http://funnybusiness.typepad.com/funnybusiness/2007/04/where_are_all_t.html
I called it, “Where are all the negotiation coaches?”
I am curious where boys learn to do this so well but I am also confident that this can be learned skill.
Elana
May 7th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
I’m with you Elana. I think this skill can be learned.
I’m not sure boys learn it in any organized way. I think it’s how we as parents/adults interact with children when it comes to money. Are we talking to girls and boys differently? I suspect we must.
On leaving a comment at MSNBC.com, you can join the chat about the story by clicking on the Discuss section in the middle of the story, or send me an email by clicking on email below my picture.
May 8th, 2007 at 1:21 am
when i first started out in my bookkeeping career, my first boss, he told me when he hired me that at 6 months i would get a review. 6 months came and not one mention of a review. so a month later i told him i wanted to schedule a time with him for my 6 month review. he said what review? i said the one you promised me when you hired me. so when it came time to talk, i had all my reasons for a raise written down and with a reason……….
i got my raise.
May 8th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
i am not a man hater, i think all women should own a few. lol.
(joke)
i sure would like to see america run for 6 months with out women in the workforce……. see how much really gets done buddy.
May 8th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
the nation would be lost without us.