The Privilege of ‘Always Negotiate’

For women and people of color, career advice meant to empower can have the opposite effect

Quinisha Jackson-Wright
Forge
Published in
5 min readJul 24, 2020

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A Black businesswoman wearing a face mask negotiates with a client. There is a plastic divider for social distancing.
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“Always negotiate.”

“Ask for what you want.”

“Charge what you’re worth.”

If I had a dollar for every piece of career advice I’ve read that boiled down to have more confidence

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Quinisha Jackson-Wright
Forge
Writer for

Bylines in The New York Times, Business Insider, and The Muse. I talk about $$ on http://moneythewrightway.com and Twitter: https://twitter.com/KWright0702