How women can negotiate for better pay, a HR’s perspective

Two weeks ago, one of AWIM speakers— Anna Nimiriano, editor in Chief of Juba Monitor— summarized what she and other colleagues talked about concerning the inequality of women in the media in Africa. One of the panelists, Joy Kaguri, a human resource executive from Kenya’s Standard Media Group, now gives a step by step account on how women can negotiate for pay in the media.

Among other things that women can do, Ms Kaguri advises women NOT TO:

• Play the victim of being a woman. Articulate your skills, your worth and performance.
• Blackmail her employer when she gets a job from a rival company.
• Assassinate the characters of her male colleagues as she argues for a salary increment.
• Quit employment without first engaging her manager or supervisor on her lack of satisfaction at the current work place

For more tips from Ms Kaguri, see the entire presentation below
https://www.slideshare.net/AfricanWomeninMedia/managing-gender-pay-gap-in-the-media

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DR. YEMISI AKINBOBOLA

C.E.O & Co-founder, AWiM

Dr Yemisi Akinbobola is an award-winning journalist, academic, consultant and co-founder of African Women in Media (AWiM). AWiM’s vision is that one-day African women will have equal access to representation in media. Joint winner of the CNN African Journalist Award 2016 (Sports Reporting), Yemisi ran her news website IQ4News between 2010-14.
Yemisi holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from Birmingham City University, where she is a Senior Lecturer. She has published scholarly research on women’s rights, African feminism, and journalism and digital public spheres. She was Editorial Consultant for the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 commemorative book titled “She Stands for Peace: 20 Years, 20 Journeys”, and currently hosts the book’s podcast.
She speaks regularly on issues relating to gender and media. In 2021 she was recognized as one of 100 Most Influential African Women.