The premise is invalid.
And as for your appeal to authority, shit, it looks like food for the echo chamber to me. Stats created to propagate a meme, peer reviewed or not.
The premise is invalid.
And as for your appeal to authority, shit, it looks like food for the echo chamber to me. Stats created to propagate a meme, peer reviewed or not.
Assuming the one thing that I'd be willing to give at least A BIT OF credence to, that is in the gender-related sphere, that women more commonly have personality traits that make them worse at negotiating, I still don't see why we should try to fix that on the employer's side. Educate the women to negotiate instead, from a young age. Giving rewards to those who don't deserve them will lead to sloppiness and bad quality work, and the outrage of those who deserve them.
Sounds to me like "it has to be correlated to gender" was a quick solution to get some quick stats published.