As a woman, I'd think you'd see it the same.

If you've been at your company for 15 yrs, won awards, still putting up good numbers/performance and you see people who don't have the same track record getting more simply because they are younger or the right exec took a liking to them due to their race (not obvious but implied)...are you going to sit idly by and say "if I said anything, it'd be race baiting".

Only claim you'd have is your resume with the company which you know stacks up. If they told you 'resume doesn't matter' and then you asked why they favored the others and they listed those people's resume...wouldn't you feel like there was something else at play?

I dunno. I think for who Monique is in the grand scheme of things, $500K was a low ball introductory offer.