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

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:06PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:06PM (#491903)

    Why does Google have a financial interest in discrimination? From a financial perspective, Google is just as motivated to pay less salary to men and women....I have worked in a US government agency and know first hand how incompetent they can be. But thanks for trying to make me feel unwelcome in my own home.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:10PM (#491908)

    > Why does Google have a financial interest in discrimination?

    Because maintaining the status quo is always the short-term cheapest option.

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday April 10 2017, @08:14PM (5 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday April 10 2017, @08:14PM (#491912)

    > just as motivated to pay less salary to men and women

    Men in the Bay Area keep jumping ship to find more elsewhere. Are women, especially those responsible children logistics, as likely to be fickle?

    > thanks for trying to make me feel unwelcome in my own home.

    You're the one claiming more trust in a private for-profit privacy-invasion-as-business-case entity, than for your own my-constitution-is-the-bestestest government... Don't shoot the messenger.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 10 2017, @09:47PM (2 children)

      Personally, I trust both of them. Granted I trust them both to fuck over anyone they get the chance to, but that's still a type of trust.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @11:27PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @11:27PM (#492010)

        No, that would be called "distrust".

        Wait, in your case I think you might have the proper usage...

      • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Tuesday April 11 2017, @02:26PM

        by linkdude64 (5482) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @02:26PM (#492268)

        I will share one of my favorite one-liners of all time...

        "You can't trust a dog, but you can trust a dog to be a dog."

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @10:47PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @10:47PM (#491990)

      Or women are negotiating for different perks instead of literal pay. Pay is only one factor in compensation and others can be much more expensive, but not pay.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by qzm on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:36AM

      by qzm (3260) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:36AM (#492136)

      >Men in the Bay Area keep jumping ship to find more elsewhere. Are women, especially those responsible children logistics, as likely to be fickle?

      Actually, in that case paying the men more would more certainly not be 'discrimination', it would be required to retain a more difficult to retain asset.
      Care to try again?

      I suspect, actually, this whole thing is an attack on Googles tendency to scale pay based on 'results' (ignoring arguments about how results are measured)
      versus seniority. Most feminists, and bureaucrats, think that a pure seniority based payment scheme is the ONLY fair method, and that payment based
      on actual value of work is evil. This is where the whole 'pay gap' lie has been nurtured. It is based on the assumption that any person with degree X who
      has been alive for Y years after getting that degree is worth the same pay - regardless of what they have done in the meantime, what their track record
      looks like, how much personal time they tend to commit to the company, etc, etc.

      In other words they desperately hate on the fact that men, with a higher average level of commitment to their career (for a number of very well understood
      sociological reasons) get paid more on average than women, who for similar sociological reasons, have more choice and less pressure in that area.

      In fact, figures that DO adjust for this show that men are almost ALWAYS paid less the women for a given level of ability/commitment.
      This should surprise no one, as it is a direct result of a society which places more pressure on men to succeed financially and in their career, and less pressure
      on women for the same.

      In other words yes, there is usually a pay gap, to the detriment of MEN, as they have given up more to receive less.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by goody on Monday April 10 2017, @11:04PM

    by goody (2135) on Monday April 10 2017, @11:04PM (#491997)

    I'm sure it isn't in their business plan or on any Powerpoint slides to embrace discrimination, but as often happens in companies, it just happens. It happens by not having processes and policies in place to prevent it from happening. The Department of Labor has its faults, but in general they protect and favor workers and aren't some big brother agency with black helicopters. You all may be fans for Google for having a great search engine, a fast browser, and a mobile device OS with mass appeal, but it says nothing of their internal practices. While Google may espouse to do no evil and use this in major decisions at an executive and board level, it can be very difficult to apply and maintain this in thousands of daily decisions in middle management.