Summary
(via ABC News)
Professor Deborah Rhode weighs in on an upcoming piece of California legislation that aims to close the pay gap between genders for ABC News.
Female employees in California are poised to get new tools to challenge gender-based wage gaps and receive protection from discrimination and retaliation if they ask questions about how much other people earn.
A bill recently passed by the Legislature and that Gov. Jerry Brown has indicated he will sign won’t suddenly put all women’s salaries on par with men’s or prod employers to freely disclose what every employee makes, which could make it easier for workers to mount pay discrimination claims.
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“The requirement that they be in jobs that are identical has really hindered women from bringing suits and has failed to provide appropriate incentive for employers to make sure they’re not engaged in subtle discrimination,” said Deborah Rhode, a law professor at Stanford Law School and expert on gender discrimination.
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