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posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 10 2017, @07:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-doll-house dept.

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Google has discriminated against its female employees, according to the US Department of Labor (DoL), which said it had evidence of "systemic compensation disparities".

As part of an ongoing DoL investigation, the government has collected information that suggests the internet search giant is violating federal employment laws with its salaries for women, agency officials said.

"We found systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce," Janette Wipper, a DoL regional director, testified in court in San Francisco on Friday.

Reached for comment Friday afternoon, Janet Herold, regional solicitor for the DoL, said: "The investigation is not complete, but at this point the department has received compelling evidence of very significant discrimination against women in the most common positions at Google headquarters."

Herold added: "The government's analysis at this point indicates that discrimination against women in Google is quite extreme, even in this industry."

Google strongly denied the accusations of inequities, claiming it did not have a gender pay gap.

Source: The Guardian


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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday April 10 2017, @07:20PM (1 child)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday April 10 2017, @07:20PM (#491861)

    Even if the accusations are false, as long as they stick and it causes a lot of harm to the company, I would categorize it as "the ends justify the means". After that, go after Apple and then Google. Hopefully, all three would be shut down and put out of business. Oh yeah, don't forget Oracle. And they might as well get Uber while they're at it. Heck, they might as well go after everyone that was involved in the no-poaching scandal a few years ago; all those companies suck.

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  • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday April 10 2017, @08:16PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Monday April 10 2017, @08:16PM (#491916) Journal

    Whatever it takes to get those womyn-born-womyn programmers to precipitate out of the æther.