[nemik]

I find this policy incredibly sexist and am very surprised it came from a woman. If the cause of this was women's supposed inferiority at negotiating, does Reddit prevent women from having sales roles where good negotiation on behalf of the company is important? How about as attorneys expected to negotiate for the company, are women excluded from those jobs?

[dragonwriter]

I don't think negotiating ability is the issue, I think that the idea is that women are empirically less inclined to salary negotiation, for whatever reason. Since salary negotiation inclination (or ability, though I don't think that's the underlying reason here) isn't the job, isolating it from pay is a way to pay fairly (not just pay women fairly either, while on average there may be a gender difference here, there are also individual difference within the same gender on this axis).