Gender-dispositional personality traits alone do not provide a comprehensive explanation for who initiates salary negotiations. While certain personality traits, such as assertiveness, self-confidence, and risk-taking, may influence an individual's propensity to negotiate, these traits are not exclusively gender-specific. Women may possess these traits, and men may lack them, challenging the notion that gender alone determines salary negotiation initiation.

Factors beyond personality traits play significant roles in determining salary negotiations. These factors include: societal expectations and stereotypes, gender discrimination in the workplace, lack of role models and mentorship for women, gender pay gaps, power dynamics within organizations, negotiation skills and training, personal career goals and priorities, institutional policies, negotiation tactics by employers, organizational culture, and individual experiences.

To understand salary negotiation behavior accurately, it is necessary to consider the intersectionality of various individual and systemic factors, including gender, but not limited to personality traits.