Fired NYTimes (female) Exec Jill Abramson was paid less than her own (male) deputy.

[pnwmom]

But she was "pushy" when she asked for more.

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/14/jill_abramson_fired_for_seeking_equal_pay_report/

Ken Auletta of The New Yorker has reported on Abramson in the past, and today reports that there indeed was: that Abramson recently learned her pay package was not commensurate with that of her predecessor, Bill Keller, and sought parity. Auletta reports: “‘She confronted the top brass,’ one close associate said, and this may have fed into the management’s narrative that she was ‘pushy,’ a characterization that, for many, has an inescapably gendered aspect.” The counterargument to Abramson’s pay request, predictably, is that ownership did not want to outlay more money in a difficult time for print media, but in an update, Auletta notes that a deputy of Abramson’s, a man, made more money than she did while she was managing editor.

[prairierose]

1. I hope she brings a suit against NYT...

that would be a high profile case to bring some media attention to the problem of pay parity.

[planetc]

2. Ah, the New York Times, bastion of ....

What are they bastions of, I wonder?

If Mr. Auletta is correct, Ms Abramson is just worth less than a man, even her own deputy. Gosh, who woulda thunk it?

The above is ironic in tone, and I recall that it was between twenty and twenty-five years after the usage became common practice that the Times finally started to use "Ms" instead of Miss and Mrs.

[AngryAmish]

3. #boycottnytforfeminism

[frazzled]

4. How dare she ask to be paid like a man

That is obviously the definition of "pushy."

Let me just say that I am a long-time subscriber to the Times, and though I hadn't connected it in the least with Jill Abramson's tenure as executive editor, now that I come to think of it ... for the past several years I have been enjoying the paper more than in the recent past, and almost never yell out, like I used to, "!*@#!!"

[bettyellen]

5. All too common- and why we need tranparency.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

6. The old gray lady discriminates against women?

this should make all the women there start to question their salaries.

[Cha]

7. Wow, classic case of sexism. Good to Jill Abramson in getting just resolution.

[Gormy Cuss]

8. Closed payrolls should be illegally.

Open payrolls would cut this bullshit immediately. I worked in an open payroll company -- totally different atmosphere from anywhere else I've ever worked.

[alp227]

9. ironic since the NYT editorializes about pay gap

like at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/opinion/the-truth-about-the-pay-gap.html

WOW. NYT f***ed up right here...right wingers gonna call this hypocrisy and laugh at us all day...SMH

[ProSense]

10. Yeah, busted. n/t

[LeftyMom]

11. Keller was an embarrassing ignoramus. Getting paid less than him is an insult.

She should sue. Seriously.

[libnnc]

13. ^^^THIS^^^

!!!!!!!

[niyad]

12. yet another reason not to read that waste of trees.