Commission, to investigate employment discrimination and protect workers who filed complaints against

employers. Economist Phyllis Ann Wallace, who had previously worked for U.S. intelligence services, was

appointed as the commission's chief of technical studies. In this role she collected and organized a massive

amount of public and private sector data, as well as mentored and directed economists and other analysts in

their investigations.

These laws against discrimination have reduced the gender wage gap. A 2007 Department of Labor study

compared salaries of men and women who have similar educational achievement, work experience, and

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occupation and found that the gender wage gap is only 5%.

In the case of the earnings gap between Black people and White people (and also between Hispanic people and
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