I have been in my current job for about one year. I have been working in my industry for eight years and have an MBA. When I applied, the minimum experience was two years. A new man has started in the development program, which is a higher level. I do more work and train him, yet he makes more money and has a higher title. Another male coworker (with less industry experience but who has been in the department longer than me) recently got a promotion. Management has spoken with him multiple times for trash-talking his manager and failing on deliverables. I have more industry experience and more education than both men. How am I not supposed to see this as gender discrimination?
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In the 1930s my great aunt Ceil worked at a brokerage. She learned she was training a newly hired young man who’s salary was twice hers. Aunt Ceil was an extraordinarily nice person, but she was no pushover. She visited her boss and demanded equal pay and got it. This was at the height of the Great Depression. I assume Aunt Ceil was negotiating from a position of strength. She worked at the brokerage for all of her adult life and retired in middle class comfort.