New law in Mass. attempts to raise IT pay for women

Women who work in information technology are paid less than men -- that much is clear. The problem is why, and whether IT managers can fix it.

The Census Bureau, in a report this week, found that women who work in IT were paid, at the median, $10,000 below men in 2014. Similarly, IEEE-USA found that women's salaries trailed men’s by an average of $13,635 in 2014. Although that deficit was down from $16,500 in 2013, the gap remains wide.

The gender wage gap is no secret, but employees are often prohibited from discussing their salaries and may have even signed confidentiality agreements. That’s one prohibition that ended with a new law Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, signed this month.

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