Kamala Harris's plan to close the gender pay gap
, senior counsel for state policy at the National Women’s Law Center, told me when I asked them about the Harris gender pay gap proposal:What do you think of Senator Harris’ proposal and what would be obstacles to it happening?One, it brings more national attention to the equal pay issue and forces other candidates in the 2020 presidential race to consider putting it on their agenda as well.
Regarding obstacles, I think political will is a major one. Also, some companies and umbrella organizations, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, will likely grumble. Salary history is another tool, and preventing employers from asking about it is another piece of her proposal. We know how unfair it is and that’s why 10 states have now passed laws in the last few years to stop the practice.My sense is that if companies truly embraced equal pay, we would have seen much more voluntary movement in this area already.
In reporting their data last year for the first time, many companies chose to go above and beyond the minimum requirements and disclose additional data that provided insight and analysis into the drivers and causes of their gaps.We are at a crossroads. We live in a country that has a strong culture of pay secrecy. That is providing an impediment to transparency initiatives.
The closest existing parallels to Harris' proposal are the laws recently passed in Iceland and France. Given that these laws are not in full effect yet, we can't say anything about their impacts on the gender pay gap.The efforts in the UK are interesting because a lot of those employers are also in the U.S.
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