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It happens to both gender. Many companies have arbitrary caps for positions, they will withdraw if you ask for a penny more than it.

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Why is it rational to withdraw the offer instead of saying "no, we will maintain our original offer"?

Posturing? Pettiness? Punishment for daring to negotiate? Companies invent policies to the disadvantage of employees.

Then again, I wouldn't want to work for someone who doesn't understand basic negotiations.

I mean, what I was going for is that none of those are rational. None of those benefit the employer; they just indulge the base human instincts of the person giving the job offer.

And once we've expanded our model to include base human instincts over rational economic behavior, sexism isn't an implausible explanation at all.

Maybe they had many many candidates wanting the position, depending on the counter they may have felt it was not worth the time to negotiate when they could just get one of the other qualified people for the offer on the table.

Personally I hate negotiation, that is one the worst things about Human society IMO, offer me a fair wage, offer me a fair price, I do not understand people that want to haggle and negotiate over everything

The more I advance into higher and higher roles, and the more salary negotiation becomes a thing more I long for the days where it was just a job, the company was Paying $xx/hr and has 100 openings, if you wanted to work for XX/hr great if not there are 300 other people waiting to do the job.

And then those companies go on to whine and moan that they can't find qualified candidates.

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