Eliza Dumais

Eliza Dumais

We Should All Be Talking About Our Salaries

Asking a co-worker how much she makes is a little like asking an acquaintance how much she weighs: invasive, rude, borderline inappropriate. With age, size, and even relationship-status, we’re raised with a polite inclination towards privacy. These discrete facts, though intimately tied up in our notions of identity and personal value, carry a certain taboo.