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by Erin Delmore
Currently, many workers are barred from knowing how much their colleagues make. Around half of workers surveyed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in 2011 said that talk of wage and salary information was either discouraged or prohibited at their workplace and could lead to punishment. Booker and Warren say that gives employers “a crucial advantage.”