It's Equal Pay Day, and women are still earning less than men. After years of little progress toward pay equity, more states and localities are passing pay-transparency laws that eliminate the secrecy around salaries and could be a powerful tool for eliminating the gender pay gap. Tuesday’s Equal Pay Day is the first in a series of days across the year that highlights how little progress the country has made toward closing the gender pay gap. Pay transparency – requiring employers to share pay minimums and maximums for job postings – is considered an effective mechanism to close that wide, persistent gap, and some of the most far-reaching legislation has come in recent months, with bills taking effect in Colorado and passing in New York City. Advocates believe pay-transparency laws, and the framework of the new bills, could drive a push for federal legislation and amass enough data to create the first databases of gender pay disparities in the United States, which would give workers more negotiating power when applying for jobs. Tap our link in bio to learn more about pay-transparency laws.