Transplanting a Seattleite

I think that may well have demonstrated that (a) her BATNA was _way_ better than any of the earlier stories portrayed (just keep job hunting turned out to be good for her) and (b) she may well not have particularly wanted the job at Nazareth unless they could satisfy a chunk of those requirements, and figured she could get them elsewhere so rather than flat out turn down the offer at Nazareth, she asked for what she wanted. When they decided to walk away, she got the payoff of telling the story.

I'm glad she got a job with better pay! Altho I really, really hope she got some of the non-pay things she wanted, too, but that's just because those probably would have mattered to me more than money in that situation.

I wonder who Nazareth filled the position with?

I do agree that the lack of transparency and the subjective components of hiring do tend to make it easy for bias to creep in. I don't know whether it's possible to change that, but would be interested in proposals.

ETA: Either way, it's a crap story for presenting women as doing badly in negotiations, because the larger story clearly shows this woman was successful in her overall negotiation -- losing this job offer was part of her ultimate success in getting something better.