The Gender Pay Gap Is Largely Because of Motherhood
So, people sometimes suggest deemphasizing long hours as a solution to the wage gap.<p>I once worked at a startup where we&#x27;d established product-market fit, and all our problems boiled down to tech debt. The codebase simply needed to be rewritten. Doing so wasn&#x27;t so intellectually hard that you needed to be a genius; you just needed a decent mastery of general programming, and to be willing to <i>put in the hours.</i> I worked a couple 90-hour weeks to get it done in time for our largest client&#x27;s launch, and became the person on our team who knew the most about our codebase. This gave me enormous leverage in salary negotiation.<p>How do we stop me from doing that?