[sses]

Maybe that typical system has a gender bias then :)

Perhaps if women are implicitly required to negotiate, and choose not to, then they will be recruited by another organization who is willing to pay them more without negotiation. You've just lost out on a good engineer - the employer has done themselves a disservice.

[christopherslee]

i think both men and women are implicitly required to negotiate.

i guess like other people are saying, i'm not sure if people look at two equal candidates and discriminate based on sex/age/other.