Ensuring Secure and Private Data Analysis
The Boston Women’s Workforce Council (BWWC) measures gender and racial wage gaps for Greater Boston every two years. To ensure the privacy and security of the 100% Talent Compact Signers’ data, the BWWC partners with Boston University's Hariri Institute for Computing to implement secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) in the wage gaps analysis process.
What is MPC and How Does It Work?
MPC is a secure way for multiple parties to encrypt and analyze data in order to extract findings and valuable insights without requiring parties to reveal private information. Using MPC-backed software, 100% Talent Compact Signers anonymously provide encrypted payroll data on full-time employees, similar to EEOC-1 job designations. The BWWC then accesses the aggregated data to analyze the wage gap findings by gender, race, job category, tenure, and ethnicity.
Hariri Institute For Computing
Meet the team behind the MPC software making it possible to measure the wage gap in Boston.
