Jake Rosenfeld

Washington University

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Associate professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he studies the relationship between pay secrecy and wage discrimination

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Equal pay for equal work has been the law in the United States since 1963, but the gap between men and women just won't go away.

Enforcing Gender Equality in America's Workplace

Equal pay for equal work has been the law in the United States since 1963, but the gap between men and women just won't go away.

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