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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:26PM (1 child)
Did they run the same analysis against the US government?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 11 2017, @02:38AM
In my experience - the government pays a flat wage for each paygrade, and everyone seems to be promoted into the paygrades fairly evenly. You don't walk into a government office to find all white males, or all white with male and female mix, or all Asian. You walk in to find a pretty balanced mix of gender and race, and you have no idea who is in charge until someone tells you.
I will point out that at the Red Rive Army Depot, the genders and races do segregate just a little. Females are found inside of offices more, and males are found outside performing manual work more. And, skilled trades (welding) tend to see more white males than non-white or non-male. I suppose the government probably ought to recruit more black and female welders? Except, blacks and females are making very similar money in those occupations which they choose.
Now - if you want to analyze political offices and political appointees, that will be an entirely different story. Those people are highly prejudiced. Ivy League college, and all the right contacts, or you don't stand much of a chance. THOSE people are mostly hetero white males. But, don't dare mix them up with the working class people!!