NEW! Business Brief – Salary History Inquiries a Thing of the Past

GBA Legal Affairs Committee

In this era of questionable statistics, two things that cannot be challenged by fact checking or Snopes.com is the underrepresentation of women and the pay disparity between females and males in STEM fields.
Much ink has been spilled about the former and, assuming GBA members would like to see an increase in female geoprofessionals, addressing the latter would certainly help. But STEM fields are not alone when it comes to pay disparity between men and women. And pay disparities are
not solely reserved for men and women but also impact minority groups as well. Pay disparity is a well-known phenomenon that in recent years has started to see legislative action designed to address these pay gaps between white males and others.

See where private employer salary history bans are in effect.

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