Boston is offering free negotiation classes to every woman who works in the city

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'Women here earn 83 cents for every dollar paid to men, 4 cents higher than the national statistic. Disparities persist across age groups, industries and companies, researchers have found — even when colleagues of the opposite sex hold identical education levels and job titles.

That’s why Boston is offering free, two-hour salary negotiation classes to every woman who works in the city. They started in October, two years after former mayor Thomas Menino pledged that Boston would become the first U.S. city to achieve pay parity.

Think of it as an intimate conversation with 170,000 women.
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'She warns students that bosses may discriminate against them, consciously or not, and emphasizes that such behavior isn’t legal. A tip from Page 25 of the guide: “Employers cannot make stereotypical comments about women and their work habits or make assumptions about the work habits of women with children.” It’s just one insight from the American Association of University Women, which designed and funded the Work Smart curriculum, intended to reach 85,000 women over five years.

The program is projected to cost up to $1.5 million, not including marketing and community outreach from the mayor’s office. Its teachers — city employees and local businesswomen — volunteer their time and personal anecdotes about wrangling more vacation days or, say, maternity leave.'