There is no gender gap in tech salaries
I'm a little surprised that there is a serious concern that this article doesn't address with gender-gapped salaries, though, and it's been touched upon several times on HN. Women tend to negotiate starting salaries and raises <i>much less</i> than men do, to the point where it can skew wage statistics by a nontrivial amount.<p>There was someone on HN a while ago who hired several engineers, and said that his company pays women less than men because he makes the same starting offer to several people, and almost <i>all</i> the men asked for more money, yet none of the women did. So the offers the company made were "fair", but the end results were very skewed wages.<p>There are entire books about this subject, such as "Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation"[1]<p>Companies could fix this overnight by disallowing negotiation (Didn't Fog Creek do this?), or making all employees salaries transparent (countries like Norway do this, and we do this for C-levels often in the US, just not plain old employees).<p>I suspect nothing institutional will change though because it would ultimately cost companies money. They benefit too much from workers who negotiate poorly.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0553383876" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/dp/0553383876</a>