Former Apple engineer shares struggles with gender wage gap, why she ultimately left industry

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According to an ABC7 News Data Analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data averaged between 2018 and 2020, in California, women make $0.88 for every dollar a man makes.

The wage gap differs by industry from 2019 through 2021, with some of the greatest disparities seen in legal occupations. Tech-related industries make the top 10 list for wage gap disparities.Software engineer Cadran Cowansage's own experience with being underpaid led her to create Elpha in 2019, a professional network for women."I think it's traditionally a pretty taboo topic but that's really changing and changing rapidly," said Cowansage.

"When they did negotiate, Black and Latina women ended up achieving salaries that were on the level of white and Asian women who didn't negotiate at all," said Cowansage. "Negotiation is important but there's a lot of work that companies also need to do in order to make sure that pay equity is happening on their teams and a lot of that work is about pay transparency," she continued.

Cowansage and Rotondo are proponents of transparency around salary bands, and pay ranges established by companies for specific roles.White House to announce steps aimed at narrowing gender, racial pay gap for federal workers"Fighting your employer over fair pay is brutal, so part of why I left tech was to heal," said Rotondo.Her message is so popular, that there's currently a waitlist.

 

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In California, they don't know what a woman is so how can they say that?

She asked to work remotely a few days a week and got it. Coworkers asked to be fully remote and got it. Sounds like her coworkers were better negotiators.

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