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Why women get paid less - and 6 tips on winning a raise

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Anne Fisher explains why women get paid less in Fortune:

"I think that women's unwillingness to "rock the boat" is a big reason why, according to the Economic Policy Institute, the wage gap between college-educated women and their male counterparts has actually gotten bigger since the mid-'90s. A decade ago, women earned 75.7 cents for each dollar paid to a man. Now it's 74.7 cents.

Our product management salary survey challenges the perceived discrepancy between compensation for men and women, at least in technology businesses. Whether the discrepancy exists or not, we should all embrace these 6 tips. As your father probably said, you rarely get what you don't ask for.