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<p>That supports the point that those seeking “flexibility” will get lower pay as employers will know they have fewer options and employee will be less likely to switch jobs for higher pay. If female are proportionally more likely to be flexibility seekers, then you would expect that they would also have lower wages than comparable males who do not value flexibility as highly.</p>
<p>Saw this comment online and found it intriguing. “If a woman does equal work for 25 percent less money, why would any employer ever hire a man?”</p>
<p>^Mine seldom does, though I don’t know why. I would assume they’re not doing it on purpose, but I know at least traditionally it isn’t a “womens” profession.</p>
<p>That point someone mentioned upthread about women being less likely to negotiate their salary really stuck with me. We’ve been talking about it at work all week. I think there could be a lot of truth to that. I also think some employers might be conscious of the fact that women are so often the caregivers, but I don’t think my employer worries about that. They expect you to work extra hours without overtime on a daily basis and there is no regular working from home, but if someone has a sick child some flexibility can be created where it may not usually be. I like to think that both sides there are meeting each other in the middle.</p>
<p>I see your point, but i think it just depends on the company, lakeclouds. Our people who have flexibility to work from home or flex hours don’t get paid any less then the people who don’t have flex hours, unless they are actually working less hours (example being somebody only wants to work 75% of a normal shift for whatever reason… this could be someone who needs to do it for child care… or someone who just wants that extra time off each week to go play a round of golf…). Unless you mean as a whole all of our employees get paid less then other companies who don’t offer flexibility… This could be truthful but from what i’ve seen places with flexibility usually have great benefits to make up for the pay differential.</p>
<p>But we, as a whole… male and female, quite possibly do get paid a bit less then other comparable businesses… i have not looked into that… but we start with 4-5 weeks vacation time as a new hire (i have 7 weeks this year and I’ve been there 7 years), the ability to telecommute, a 401k, pension plan, tuition reinbursement, etc… and to me, this more then makes up for any less salary… and this is rare.</p>
<p>i also currently work in the IT department, where my team is entirely women. sure, there are plenty of men on other teams… but how often do you run into a team of all women in IT? Usually one or two women on a team is rare, yet alone a whole team of us. I’m sure we have higher salaries then a woman who chooses to work for the same company but in say customer service or something similar. But all employees get the same benefits and flexibility.</p>