Kamala Harris "gender wage gap" proposal

"Under the Harris proposal, companies could face fines if they didn’t address pay disparities. It would require large corporations to obtain an “Equal Pay Certification” to show they’re not paying women less than men for an equal value of work. The senator’s plan would also prevent companies from asking about prior salary history as part of their hiring practices and bar them from using forced arbitration agreements in employment contracts for pay-discrimination matters."

This from a separate article about Google's internal review of wages: "When Google conducted a study recently to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority groups, it found, to the surprise of just about everyone, that men were paid less money than women for doing similar work."

Seems like a desperate ploy to gain some relevancy in the polls, curious to get some thoughts.

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As a self-professed left-leaning person, it strikes me as simply a ploy for votes. This law is just a lot of fluff that rehashes words found on every major company's employee handbook/code of ethics. Not saying women don't face a glass ceiling, but the pay gap strictly based on gender (removing external factors such as motherhood etc) is mostly a myth in 2019.

Some enterprising lawyer might use "equal value of work" to mount a huge litigation one day, but the potential for it backfiring are too big for it to ever become a liability.

 
"Paddy’s Pub"It would require large corporations to obtain an “Equal Pay Certification” to show they’re not paying women less than men for an equal value of work. The senator’s plan would also prevent companies from asking about prior salary history as part of their hiring practices.

This is of course a shameless ploy for votes, but there's nothing particularly revolutionary here. The gender pay gap is overwhelmingly due to external factors like motherhood and a lack of women in high level roles. I can't imagine major corporations strategically paying women less than men in the same roles in the company in 2019.

As far of the second part of what I quoted, that's a good idea. I always hated that question from HR and always sidestepped it.

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