The Lily | In NYC, employers will soon have to list salary ranges on job postings.

Experts characterize the bills as key tools that, coupled with other pay equity policies, can help combat the gender wage gap for women job-seekers and workers.

“It does chip away at issues around pay inequity, [and] can go a long way towards closing the pay gap,” C. Nicole Mason, president and chief executive of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, said of the New York City bill and similar ones.

Part of how they could do so is by leveling the playing field so that “no secrets are allowed between workers,” according to Teresa Ghilarducci, professor of economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

“The idea is that if there are no secrets, then every worker has a lot more bargaining power,” Ghilarducci added. “And that will lead to equity because women and non-White men have had less power in getting higher wages because of just endemic power relationships that already exist.”

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