Should the wage difference between women and men be addressed or left alone?

[Gormy Cuss]

2. The simplest and perhaps best transparency is open pay rosters.

I worked in a company where out of necessity many of us needed to know pay rates in order to write bid proposals. The company made the bold move of just having everyone have access to it. This was a largish company with pay ranging from just above minimum wage to over $100/hr.

It's the place where people groused THE LEAST about what they made vs. other people. The bright shining light on the pay range for people in the same job category meant that management had to justify differences.

Now the company did have confidential management bonuses and may have been shortchanging women that way, but most employees didn't qualify for those bonuses.