Boston Globe: Fix the wage gap with transparency

FOR MOST OF my career as a journalist, I’ve had no idea whether I made as much money as my male colleagues with equal education, experience, performance, and that ineffable and often highly subjective quality, “talent.” In many newsrooms, like much of corporate America, talking about pay is either actively discouraged, prohibited, or simply not done.

The one time I did learn that a male reporter doing the same job was earning more, I overheard a conversation in the elevator about how our boss paid him more because he had a family.

Well, he had a wife. Who made more than he did.

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