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Supporting Women in Cyber: But Not at the Cost of Fairness - Cyber Security Agony Uncles
Monthly cyber security podcast, with our experts Eliza-May Austin (standing in for Stephen Ridgway) and Rich Benfield. If you are in a sticky situation, or need any advice to do with cyber security answered anonymously and on the podcast, email us at [email protected]. This weeks question is:Dear Agony uncles I hope you can help me navigate a challenging situation at work I've been in the it field for eight years and two years ago I transitioned into a cyber security consultant role at one of the big four consultancy firms whilst I acknowledge that I'm not the most experienced I've been continuously improving and hold a cissp certification so here's the Dilemma I was given a small team of direct reports all with the same job title but in a lower Pay Band than me or so I thought during the interview process for a new team member we agreed on a woman with one year of Industry experience in compliance who came through from a training boot camp surprisingly she's being paid the same as me despite being my direct report and she's earning 15K more than her male colleagues with more experience in her I don't want to jump to conclusions and assume this pay Gap is solely because of her gender but it's hard to ignore the possibility we have ambitious quotas to meet and this situation is causing me a lot of frustration on one hand I understand that she may need time to gain experience but her pay grade implies a certain level of expertise I can't help but feed a tinge of jealousy because I worked hard to reach my salary while it seems she was handed hers I want to support the women in cyber movement but incidents like this make it challenging I've considered sharing my thoughts on LinkedIn but I'm worried it might harm my career I'm so angry and I'm starting to dislike her even though it's not her fault what should I do to handle this situation without driving myself mad with jealousy and how do I stop myself disliking her so much I've genuine genuinely considered leaving because it feels so unfair sincerely struggling with cyber security consultant.
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By th4ts3cur1ty.companyMonthly cyber security podcast, with our experts Eliza-May Austin (standing in for Stephen Ridgway) and Rich Benfield. If you are in a sticky situation, or need any advice to do with cyber security answered anonymously and on the podcast, email us at [email protected]. This weeks question is:Dear Agony uncles I hope you can help me navigate a challenging situation at work I've been in the it field for eight years and two years ago I transitioned into a cyber security consultant role at one of the big four consultancy firms whilst I acknowledge that I'm not the most experienced I've been continuously improving and hold a cissp certification so here's the Dilemma I was given a small team of direct reports all with the same job title but in a lower Pay Band than me or so I thought during the interview process for a new team member we agreed on a woman with one year of Industry experience in compliance who came through from a training boot camp surprisingly she's being paid the same as me despite being my direct report and she's earning 15K more than her male colleagues with more experience in her I don't want to jump to conclusions and assume this pay Gap is solely because of her gender but it's hard to ignore the possibility we have ambitious quotas to meet and this situation is causing me a lot of frustration on one hand I understand that she may need time to gain experience but her pay grade implies a certain level of expertise I can't help but feed a tinge of jealousy because I worked hard to reach my salary while it seems she was handed hers I want to support the women in cyber movement but incidents like this make it challenging I've considered sharing my thoughts on LinkedIn but I'm worried it might harm my career I'm so angry and I'm starting to dislike her even though it's not her fault what should I do to handle this situation without driving myself mad with jealousy and how do I stop myself disliking her so much I've genuine genuinely considered leaving because it feels so unfair sincerely struggling with cyber security consultant.