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Re:Study shows salaries of young women 8% higher than men in... by fyi1183 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:57AM (#16744603)
In certain Nordic countries (Sweden at least, I believe), all tax data is public. By extension, everybody's income is public as well. It doesn't seem to be an issue.
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Re:Study shows salaries of young women 8% higher than men in... by crusso on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @10:23AM (#16744868)
A quick Google turned up some refutation of your statement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9907147

Looking further, it appears that Sweden has decreased the amount of transparency by requiring that people make specific requests that notify the taxpayer of the request.

http://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-salaries-freely-availa...

Apparently, there were issues. I'd like to see this experiment run for a longer period of time in more culturally diverse environments, though.

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