Salary transparencies spur universities to pay females more equitably
Publicly available salary information prompts organizations to reduce the gender pay gap, according to a new study from the University of Californi...
Publicly available salary information prompts organizations to reduce the gender pay gap, according to a new study from the University of California San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy. The research counters previous assumptions that salary transparency creates more equal pay because it allows individual employees to negotiate for higher compensation. 'We find that when there is a standardization process that makes searching for compensation information very easy, then organizations as a whole have an incentive to improve equality to reduce the threat of public scrutiny,' said Elizabeth Lyons, associate professor of management at the School of Global Policy and Strategy and coauthor of the study.