Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says
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Re: Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says
#2Why are women making less compared to males in tech? Are they not as capable?
Re: Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says
#3I can't read the whole article, but does it (or DOL documents) include details like amount of experience and job function?
I've heard that much (not all) of the aggregate gap (i.e., on the national level) goes away after controlling for those variables.
Curious if that applies here, and if so, to what degree.
Edit: consider recent headlines promoting outrage at Marissa Mayer's successor earning double her salary because he's a man. Turns out he's a veteran executive with 20 years of C-level experience. Mayer didn't have that. It may be an extreme example, but it's a good reminder to be cautious about pay gap assertions.
Re: Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says
#4Non-paywalled but not identical version: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-google-w...
Re: Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says
#5I can't wait to see Googles response. I have no idea why they would even open themselves up to this criticism when they could easily align the salaries.
Re: Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says
#6I can't wait to see Googles response. I have no idea why they would even open themselves up to this criticism when they could easily align the salaries.
They did respond, they denied any pay gap.
Re: Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says
#7I can't read the whole article, but does it (or DOL documents) include details like amount of experience and job function? I've heard that much (not all) of the aggregate gap (i.e., on the national level) goes away after controlling for those variables. Curious if that applies here, and if so, to what degree. Edit: consider recent headlines promoting outrage at Marissa Mayer's successor earning double her salary beca…
It's an odd situation. The government isn't giving out any numbers, but they are saying things like:
"The government’s analysis at this point indicates that discrimination against women in Google is quite extreme, even in this industry."
Pretty strong language when you aren't yet willing to back it up. Google's replies are equally strong in the other direction:
"Every year, we do a comprehensive and robust analysis of pay across genders and we have found no gender pay gap."
Saying there's no gender pay gap at all is pretty bold as well.
Re: Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says
#8I can't read the whole article, but does it (or DOL documents) include details like amount of experience and job function? I've heard that much (not all) of the aggregate gap (i.e., on the national level) goes away after controlling for those variables. Curious if that applies here, and if so, to what degree. Edit: consider recent headlines promoting outrage at Marissa Mayer's successor earning double her salary beca…
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Re: Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says
#9Until the government releases their methodology it is hard to know how factual this assessment is.
Google has done a lot of work internally to even up the gap and claims that they have achieved parity.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/07/google-pa...
Either party could squelch the un-informed debate by releasing the data and the methods used to arrive at their conclusions.
Re: Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says
#10I can't wait to see Googles response. I have no idea why they would even open themselves up to this criticism when they could easily align the salaries.
Google basically claims they have internal programs and have reached pay parity globally. The DoL says that's not true based on the data they've viewed. There seems to be a lot of lawyer scaremongering on both sides, I'd wait for this case to progress more before choosing a side.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/07/google-pa...