I’d rather have it that way than at my last company, where I discussed salary with someone of lesser education and talents, but who was female. She found out I

I’d rather have it that way than at my last company, where I discussed salary with someone of lesser education and talents, but who was female. She found out I was making more due to my education and negotiation, then she went complaining to all of my bosses and HR about a gender pay gap, and come Christmas time she got a raise much larger than mine so we were making the same. Even though she didn’t negotiate and had no masters. How is that fair to me as someone who arguably deserved the higher salary? I knew more and played the market game better, yet because of my gender I then make the same as a less productive worker? Salaries should be transparent and the reasons for higher pay should be merit based. I left that company immediately afterwards because another one offered me 50% more to do what the first company wasn’t even thinking of doing yet. So overall, I think the current system of secrecy and unjustified numbers is far from ideal.