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Raphael Warnock: The issue is, because of the gender wage gap the likelihood that the female applicant's salary history will show a…

On the recordJune 8, 2021
The issue is, because of the gender wage gap the likelihood that the female applicant's salary history will show a history of much lower earnings than the male applicant is simply why requesting previous salary histories has a disparate impact on female applicants for jobs.
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Raphael Warnock
Democratic · Georgia

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Warnock explains how salary history requests perpetuate the gender wage gap.

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