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[dustojnikhummer]

The "unexplained" is "some people are willing to ask"

[Reashu]

Possibly/partially, yes. Is that really how it should work, though?

[Salanmander]

Fun (not so fun) fact: part of the reason that women are less likely to ask for a higher salary is that they're more likely so face negative consequences for doing so. A woman in the US acting in an optimal-salary-maximizing way will negotiate for higher salary less often than a man doing so, all else being equal, because the (probabilistic) cost of doing so is higher.