Sociologist Aiden Park studied workplaces that had adopted "transparent salary" policies, in which every employee's pay is visible to colleagues. He expected to find that transparency reduced wage gaps. Instead, his interviews suggested something more complicated: transparency made existing gaps harder to ignore, but it did not, on its own, change the structures that produced them. Workers reported feeling more informed and sometimes more dissatisfied — without obvious shifts in pay.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A
Workers prefer secrecy about pay.
- B
Salary transparency eliminates wage gaps.
- C
Wage gaps are entirely the result of poor communication.
- Dcheck_circle
Park's study suggests salary transparency makes inequities visible without necessarily reducing them.
Explanation
The passage carefully distinguishes visibility (achieved) from reduction (not achieved) — B. A and D oversimplify; C is unsupported.