To Fix Inequality, Silicon Valley Needs to Share a Lot More Data

In 2015, Erica Baker did the impossible: she made a spreadsheet go viral.

Baker, an engineer at Google at the time, created the spreadsheet with her fellow Googlers to keep track of everyone’s salary. But what started as an experiment in radical transparency among colleagues soon took on a life of its own. People began sharing the spreadsheet, adding to it and organizing it to find out whether compensation was truly equitable across genders, races, and demographics at the company.