Salary transparency laws strive to fix damaging pay gaps — but what are they missing?

Could salary transparency be the key to closing the gender pay gap, reducing pay discrimination and creating a more equitable workforce for all? Well...not so fast.

“We should look at laws like pay transparency as a tool in the toolbox to get to pay equity,” says Rocki Howard, chief people and equity officer at The Mom Project, a digital community and talent marketplace for women. “The challenge is doing it in the right way. That takes quite a bit of work and I’m not sure that people understand the work that sits underneath it.” READ MORE