“she encourages men to share their salaries with women”
If women shared their salaries with men at my job they’d have a slew of reverse discrimination suits; a few years ago they decided to get ahead of this “pay gap” nonsense by fabricating new titles for a group of women (mostly toys for ageing, lonely men) and raising their pay - with no additional responsibilities or time demands. It just forced us men to cut our hours down to match the bare minimum they work, but they are still paid more.
“Myth or not, I don’t know any reasonable person – male or female – who would go around telling people how much money they make. That’s a great way to create a toxic work environment.”
In the industry I am in, Defense, revealing your salary to anybody outside a select few in the HR payroll section is, across the industry, considered an offense normally dealt with by immediate termination.
You are usually told this early during Day One of the new hire induction process. Most companies put it in writing in the employee handbook.
In my lifetime work experience, many women I've seen do not deserve the same pay as the men with the same titles. For instance, I held a senior systems engineer title at a large computer site; they gave the same title and pay to some women to make them feel better. While building a row of computer servers and data cabinets, one gal comes along with a server on a mobile stand and asks me to hook it up for her. I said why, she should do it. She said "I don't know how." She didn't know how to hook up a keyboard, display and mouse. And wanted engineer pay. And she couldn't lift the server into a rack. I was responsible for calculating the power requirements for the data cabinets, assembling the cabinets and installing power and UPS to them, building the servers and installing the system software and doing the router communications. None of which she could do. Now multiply that by half a dozen similar women at the department and you get an idea of why the men were pissed off. Complaints would do no good, as department managers protected the women.
I've had other similar experiences at other places I worked. I've only encountered a couple women who were equal to the tasks as the men. One had no problem crawling through rat infested tunnels between buildings to install new data comm wiring, and knew her engineering as well as any guy. But on average, most women were overpaid, while the men were overworked.