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      1. Comparing notes with male/NB masculine colleagues, discovering that their experience negotiating is SO DIFFERENT from mine.
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      They don’t have offers rescinded for negotiating. They don’t have to ask friends of a different gender to proofread their emails.
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    They don’t feel like their only options are to take the offer as-is, or attempt to negotiate knowing they’ll lose the opportunity.
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      But tell me again about how “women don’t negotiate”. Tell me again that I just need to “Lean In”.
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      1. …in reply to @gesa
        A woman just said to me “I'd rather be underpaid than unemployed”. That’s what this system has done to women. What the fuck kind of choice…
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          I get that there are lots of parts of the economy where jobs are scarce, but for programmers THIS IS NOT THE CASE so what the fuck, tech.
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