New York City just recently passed a law banning salary history inquiries. I hope that other cities and states start following suit. Good coverage of it here:

New York City just recently passed a law banning salary history inquiries. I hope that other cities and states start following suit. Good coverage of it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/business/dealbook/job-salary-pay-women-men-wall-street.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/business/dealbook/job-sal... The idea behind the new law, which was sponsored by the New York City public advocate, Letitia James, is to try to prevent pay inequality between men and women. According to an August 2016 study commissioned by Ms. James, women in New York State get paid, on average, only around 87 percent of what men get paid. Women in New York State earn collectively some $20 billion less annually than do men. In New York City, women get paid nearly $6 billion less than men annually. This inequity gets memorialized not only when a woman starts a job but also when she switches jobs because until now employers were able to ask prospective employees how much they have been paid in the past. The pay inequity gets perpetuated year-to-year, person-to-person across industries.