While there's copious research out there that shows a confidence gender gap when it comes to investing, the question remains: are men actually better at investing than women or do they simply believe they're better? And is a high comfort level in investing...a good thing?
While these laws are still new, there is evidence that pay transparency does narrow wage gaps from the public sector. The gender pay gap for federal workers, who can tap publicly available salary information, was 93%, according to a GAO report from 2017. For U.S. workers overall, it's 82%.