Re: Re:Why? and then we ask ourselves why women in are few and far between
The way it works is we set salaries so that we get an even number of applicants from both sexes. So we will look at CVs for men upto £60,000 and women upto £75,000 for a senior dev role, for example.
Once the CVs are in we hire the best person for the job at the rate they asked for.
The net effect is that women are paid more for the same job, but we've not discriminated during the evaluation of applicants and we aren't explicitly paying more (if the best candidate was a woman and applied at the £60k rate, we'd hire her at that).
HR say it's all legal. I'm not sure, but I'm not rocking that particular boat.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
