Disney’s $43M settlement is a wake-up call — gender pay gaps can cost you big over time. What you can do

“It’s really hard to know you’re experiencing [pay discrimination] because there is such a culture of secrecy around pay,” Emily Martin, the vice president for education and workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center told The 19th. “Part of the answer to closing gender wage gaps and racial wage gaps … is greater pay transparency because sunlight is a disinfectant here.”