What Men Do To Outearn Women

The Important Career Lesson We Can Learn From Peggy Olson
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Men do a lot things we don’t that contribute to the persistent 20-30% wage gap.

Mad Men, that great reminder to the nation of life before feminism, perfectly illustrates our persistent failure to negotiate our true market value.

In that, not much has changed between Peggy Olson's 1967 job search and our own lateral moves today.

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