Plaintiff Schulman has alleged that Defendants Zoetis, Inc. and Zoetis Reference Labs, LLC violated the Equal Pay Act (EPA) when they paid her male colleagues vastly more than they paid her, for equal work for which she was far more experienced. The Defendants have alleged that the male employees’ pay was based on the pay they received at their prior place of employment. However, using prior pay to set an employee’s future salary contributes to the perpetuation of the gender pay gap and runs counter to the Equal Pay Act’s goal of eradicating gender-based wage differentials.