Ruth Bader Ginsberg once said the only difference between her mother, a bookkeeper in the Garment District, and herself, a Supreme Court Justice, was one generation. We have come so far, yet we have not come far enough. Women will soon be the majority of the US college-educated workforce, yet on average they make $26,000 a year less than equally credentialed male peers. More and more women are reaching for and obtaining leadership positions. Still others are leaning in, yet feeling held back.
Whether you are out there negotiating your first job, switching careers, or reaching your first management or executive position, you might have felt some degree of anxiety or discomfort around negotiating, and advocating for your worth. You might have not known how to answer the recruiter’s perennial question, “What are your salary expectations?” because you didn’t have good data. You may have experienced the sinking feeling of having your counteroffer accepted right away, wondering how much money and unrealized value was left on the table.
If you are out there, you may be hustling, striving, achieving, breaking barriers, bending the status quo. Or you may simply want to do something to create a more equal world of opportunity for your son or daughter. If so, we built this for you. We built this for the striving everywo(man) who is trying to move ahead and create a better future. We built it for men, women, and companies that want to help try to close the gender pay and equity opportunity gap.