--- title: Rethinking Honesty In the Fight for Equal Pay description: How far women should go to close the gender pay gap, poaching and pandemics, a better jail and more. canonical: https://time.com/4281982/wage-gap-fight-honesty/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-05T16:01:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:10.048Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Rethinking Honesty In the Fight for Equal Pay og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4281982/wage-gap-fight-honesty/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rethinking Honesty In the Fight for Equal Pay twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Rethinking Honesty In the Fight for Equal Pay by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 5, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 5, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**In the fight to close the gender pay gap, is honesty the best policy?**](http://www.the-broad-side.com/ladies-in-salary-negotiations-maybe-honesty-isnt-the-best-policy) By Thea Joselow in the Broad Side **2\.** [**Poaching threatens species — and could start the next pandemic. Here’s how to stop it.**](http://www.takepart.com/feature/2016/04/01/bushmeat-poaching) By Laura Krantz in TakePart **3\.** [**This is how to make jail better.**](http://narrative.ly/where-jail-has-no-bars/) By N.K. Napier in Narratively **4\.** [**Can we teach computers to spot lies?**](http://www.poynter.org/2016/fact-checking-2-0-teaching-computers-how-to-spot-lies/404501/) By Alan Greenblatt in Poynter **5\.** [**How do Chinese students schooled in rote learning make it to the Ivy League?**](https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-long-march-from-china-to-the-ivies) By Brook Larmer in 1843  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4281982/wage-gap-fight-honesty/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4281982/wage-gap-fight-honesty/"},"headline":"Rethinking Honesty In the Fight for Equal Pay","datePublished":"2016-04-05T16:01:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:10.048Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4281982/wage-gap-fight-honesty/","keywords":["Innovation","China","Harvard","Jail","ebola","pay gap"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4281982/wage-gap-fight-honesty/","name":"Rethinking Honesty In the Fight for Equal Pay"}}]}] ```