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However, listing salaries with personal information and names attached is exactly how it works for federal government employees . Companies in the private sector are following suit, says Ariane Hegewisch , a study director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) who researches the gender wage gap. And they’re doing so without dire consequences, she says, adding that “those concerns are a little overrated.”