Margret Bjarnadottir wrote for Ms. Magazine: We're Not Waiting 200 Years to Close the Gender Pay Gap

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In Maryland, the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act not only prohibits gender-based pay discrimination but also has several transparency requirements. These include providing the pay range to applicants on request and a prohibition against asking for salary history. The law also protects employees’ rights to discuss their pay.

PayAnalytics includes a pay gap correction feature to help clients comply with the EU pay transparency directive. This feature, introduced in early 2023, lets users target raises to specific groups of employees in order to plan corrective action.

In 2021, the US state of Connecticut passed a new pay transparency law with four major parts: equal pay for comparable work, wage range disclosure in job postings, ban on seeking/using an employee’s wage history, and freedom to discuss pay.