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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: 2) by Lagg on Monday April 10 2017, @07:53PM (2 children)
I have it on good account that some Google depts even handed out inclusiveness stickers. Some kind of homebrew gender icon. Kind of like the trans one but not. They're also big fans of putting pie charts and stuff out about how inclusive they are and how they're always working to correct this issue.
Regardless of what your thoughts on the matter are. You must admit it's pretty funny that it's usually the companies putting this stuff forward that are the ones that end up accused of doing it. Is it because it's only the unholy-massive companies that have enough warm bodies to not care about individual value?
Marc Pilotin, a DoL attorney, said: “For some reason or another, Google wants to hide the pay-related information.”
In a statement to the Guardian, Google said: “We vehemently disagree with [Wipper’s] claim. Every year, we do a comprehensive and robust analysis of pay across genders and we have found no gender pay gap. Other than making an unfounded statement which we heard for the first time in court, the DoL hasn’t provided any data, or shared its methodology.”
This is amusing on multiple levels. Like Google has any place to complain about such things. But I digress. The real kicker is right here. Shows exactly how these companies - and Google - think about this. Numbers.
Google began releasing diversity statistics in 2014 and reported last year that women made up 31% of its overall workforce and that only 2% of workers were black and 3% Latino. White employees accounted for 59% of the US workforce and Asians made up 32%.
At this point I'm creating a list of companies to thank for directly elevating Trump and legitimizing his politics before I start thanking individuals for doing so. Going to start my door-to-door thanking campaign in the Bay area near Google's campus, and spread out in a spiral motion to lesser players' offices like Symantec and Mozilla. It makes sense right?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by nobu_the_bard on Monday April 10 2017, @09:53PM (1 child)
Google began releasing diversity statistics in 2014 and reported last year that women made up 31% of its overall workforce and that only 2% of workers were black and 3% Latino. White employees accounted for 59% of the US workforce and Asians made up 32%.
Thing about this quote is there's no context. In the places Google has employees, are those numbers reflective of the actual availability? Are they representative of some huge missed opportunity - are there huge numbers of Latino people with the sort of training Google wants, that it isn't hiring, in favor of whites and Asians?
I assume the author wants you to assume there is a roughly even balance of human resources available, but the quote gives no context to establish that it means anything besides what it says it all. It's not a useful quote.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:15AM
It's precisely as useful as its source for starting a discussion. [google.com]
How 'bout that pepsi commercial though gais. A real conversation starter if there ever was one. Real shiny.
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