Well everyone’s all about empowering women until they need to put their money where their mouth is (not that anything in this article wouldn’t be beneficial for pretty much everyone working for a wage, but the gender discrimination aspect seems to be the focus of the author).
How does this empower women? Sounds like lowering the bar for everyone.
The author even said she’s likely to undervalue her own worth. This proposal is a business straight up telling them their worth. Opposite of empowering. She wants prices listed like a McDonalds drive thru. She wants it easy.
Real empowerment would be teaching women how to properly negotiate a salary.
The measures she proposes would likely raise wages for everyone, especially women, because the employer’s chief advantage in salary negotiations is information asymmetry. They know what their budget is and want to go even further to have you tell them what you’ll accept (happily pocketing the difference if that was less than they would have paid). They also have a much better understanding of the market and comfort negotiating since they are doing this a lot more than you are.
I also think that helping women negotiate is more complicated than just teaching them techniques, because people will not necessarily react the same way to the same behavior from men as from women.
So it’s not “empowerment”. It’s equal outcomes. It’s not “leveling the playing field”, it’s removing the playing field. If that’s your goal whatever, but dressing it up behind platitudes is dishonest.
