SPECIAL MENTION: For Pipeline founder Katica Roy, it’s not enough to close the pay gap—she wants to make sure that companies have the knowledge and tools to keep it closed. To that end, she created Pipeline, a software platform for employers that both identifies and analyzes bias in the workplace. The technology evaluates written performance reviews, hiring and promoting practices, and other metrics in order to determine the roots of the problem. “Pay is the symptom, not the disease,” says Roy. —Emily Barone
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