Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130606:19:27:00
Back and making less than men? >> well, it's working in a lot of different ways. in the first place, of course, there is outright discrimination. when you attach a woman's name and a man's name to the same job application, she is less likely to be hired. and if she is hired she is offered a lower starting salary. so another part of it is that we have been socialized, that it's rude for women to negotiate. and in fact we do get penalized when we negotiate. it's sort of a double bind. we don't ask for higher salaries so we start at lower salary, and that mounts over the years because promotions ...