Do Salary-History Bans Help or Hurt Women?

Growing numbers of U.S. cities, states and employers, aiming to remove pay inequities between women and their higher-paid male counterparts, have adopted policies to keep job applicants from being asked to divulge their salary histories.
Whether salary-question bans produce the intended results, however, or wind up backfiring or doing little for those they’re designed to help remains to be seen.
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