My sister works for a very large engineering company who she’s been working for around 3.5 years.
Her starting rate was around 79K and after her promotions she’s making around 89K now. She’s the only woman on her team and she had just discovered that the relative new hires have a starting rate of around 95K. These guys just are out of school and have barely any experience even though my sister has a lot of experience at this company and two others prior to her employment.
She brought this to the attention of HR and HR asked her “well, how much experience do you have?” As if her experience has anything to do with her capabilities.
She is overqualified for her roll, she is smarter than the men on her team (trust me I’ve heard her speak and basically run everything) and yet, because she is the woman, they get away with paying her less.
Sadly, proving discrimination is next to impossible and her best option is to quiet quit and find a new job. The fact that this is still happening in 2023 is mind boggling.