How to Make the Case for Higher Pay - from the New York Times

"Asking for a raise is hard enough in normal economic times. But now, you can’t help wondering: does the mere act of asking for more money come with its own risks?" Iris Bohnet, Professor of Public Policy, Academic Dean, and Director of WAPPP, discusses the particularly fine line women walk when asking for a raise in this New York Times article.

How to Make the Case for Higher Pay
By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD
November 25, 2011

So you’ve been keeping your head down, working as hard as you can — glad, you tell yourself, that you even have a job.

But you’ve been doing that for several years now. And in that time, the cost of your health insurance has gone up, along with college tuition, gasoline and a host of other things. Your pay, meanwhile, has been stagnant.

Asking for a raise is hard enough in normal economic times. But now, you can’t help wondering: does the mere act of asking for more money come with its own risks?