Mika Brzezinski Talks To ABC News About Her Battle For Equal Pay At MSNBC

MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski appeared on ABC World News Tuesday in a story about women fighting for equal pay, telling ABC’s Claire Shipman “I got a sense of what all the guys where making on the set, and I looked around one morning and I realized I was the lowest paid on the set and in one case by far.”

Brzezinski, who’s written about her in-house fight for equal pay in a book, “Knowing Your Value,” prevailed without going to court. The Morning Joe co-host used tough negotiations–and a threat to jump ship. But she warns women it’s a risky move. “Only do an ultimatum if you’re ready to walk. And I was.”

In the ABC story, which features several successful women who realized to their surprise they were making significantly less money than their workplace equals, Brzezinski said women worry about offending bosses–and men don’t.
“I think we apologize too much,” Brzezinski told ABC News. “We worry about about if we’re liked by our employers. Let me just tell you men don’t worry about these things. They go in and negotiate for themselves.”

Watch it here, from ABC News:

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