Women asking for raises at work and hitting the glass ceiling

I recently read this article about How sometimes women don't get the raises they deserve at work just because they are women and how asking for a raise can actually ostracise them at the workplace.
Here is where you can find the original article.

Can "Nice Girls" Negotiate?

2:18 PM Wednesday December 2, 2009
by Whitney Johnson http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/12/can_nice_girls_negotiate.html?referral=00134



I am a 30 old female physician, A very very hardworking one at that. and this issue is very dear to my heart..Hence i left a comment on there .
here goes my comment
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December 11, 2009 at 9:47 PM

I agree.
It is always better to ask what you think you deserve to be paid.
If they don't give you the raise or shun you ,it is okay.Like Whitney rightly points out,"You don't go away empty handed.You get information" and when the time is right you can leave if you are dissatisfied with the pay-scale.
Also, the only way to change this attitude that when women ask they are being NON FEMININE, is to come out in large numbers and start asking just like men do.
As more women enter the work force and assume higher and bigger offices at work, and as more women start asking for what they want, Men will get used to that scenario that women ask too and that trait is not a NON FEMININE one.
That is how we break glass ceilings.
This is me, A female physician trying to break glass ceilings everywhere , for myself and for my fellow women workforce.
cheers to all

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