Well, "under a financial overhaul passed by Congress in 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission was supposed to require all publicly held companies to disc

Well, "under a financial overhaul passed by Congress in 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission was supposed to require all publicly held companies to disclose the ratio of C.E.O. pay to the median pay of all other employees, but it has so far failed to put it in effect" sounds a little bit like someone wants to mandate this kind of a practice. (I'm not in the US so such a law does not impact me directly, at least not at the moment, but as experienced with the totally nuts application of SOX laws, such things passed by US Congress may mean WTF moments to people at the other side of the world). [edit: typo]