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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:07PM (15 children)
Its funny to read the comments on stories like these. The general Soylent commentariat are tinfoil-levels of paranoid when it comes to Google's behavior, and to the left of Lenin on how much the government is allowed to police speech. But, I guess it just takes the right alignment of opressor and opressee to turn them into red-blooded MUH FREEDOMS reactionaries.
How mercenary are the sympathies of the modern man.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday April 10 2017, @08:21PM (4 children)
You're making the classic mistake that everyone who complains about a "hive mind" on one of these forums makes: you think that everyone has the same opinion, which is completely false. In reality, there's several different camps in each forum. Here on SN, there's at least two main camps: the leftists, and the libertarians.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @11:07PM (1 child)
Here on SN, there's at least two main camps: the leftists, and the libertarians.
Don't forget the asshole camp. They are adequately represented.
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Tuesday April 11 2017, @10:05AM
Thanks for that. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @11:35PM
Did I use the words 'hive mind'? I used 'commentariat' because I was implicitly addressing that I was painting with a broad brush, as was clear from the context that I used it in (the hyperbole also helps). Reading comprehension is a vital skill.
I know there's a variety of posters here. The specific instance that I had in mind when I was expressing my opinion that rank propaganda from The Guardian or World Socialist Web Site are posted as submissions on this site on a regular basis and there's nothing but measured discussion about the fallacies of capitalism and longing for the coming socialist utopia. But someone sources a story from Breitbart and there's nothing but hundreds of comments of [autistic screeching] counter-signalling about the source of the article, and it's a bitch and a half to find discussion about the content. So my observation is not from assumption, but from statistical analysis. That you're reflexively upset about my observation shows that my over-broad characterization of commenters here hit too close to home for you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @11:17PM
A more accurate categorization of the two main camps would be the slavers (liberals, conservatives, nanny-staters, "there aughtta be a law" folk, and to a large extent the libertarians), and the anti-slavers ("I exclusively own my body, and you exclusively own yours. Let's conduct ourselves accordingly").
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Monday April 10 2017, @08:34PM
Well I mean. You're doing a great job disproving the tinfoil hatters that think all Americans were brainwashed into a two party system from birth. :D
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday April 10 2017, @09:01PM (8 children)
I was recently reflecting on this phenomena.
I do appreciate the fact that on SoylentNews, even the Left-of-Lenin do not call for banning of the Right-Of-Hitler, and likewise.
Sure, the "Party of Peace" Democrips will regularly call for the death and/or flagellation of the "Party of War" Rebloodicans, but they do not call for banning.
For all of our differences, I would say this is a healthy website, and Azuma Hazuki is just as intelligent and worthy of respect as The Mighty Buzzard. *dives for cover*
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 10 2017, @09:53PM (4 children)
Yep, I'm pretty fond of it myself.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:26AM (3 children)
Yeah, how great is it that all we ever do is rehash the same old shit over and over again? Never rising above the most basic arguments.
What a freakin paradise!!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 11 2017, @09:58AM
Well, the software that runs the site is named Rehash after all.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Tuesday April 11 2017, @02:23PM (1 child)
You're right, and talking shit about SN is such a fresh perspective to see for once! Thank you for contributing!
I have a feeling you're from Reddit, Facebook, or the Other Site where arguments are "actually solved" by the mods banning the opposition.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @05:23PM
You're right, and talking shit about SN is such a fresh perspective to see for once! Thank you for contributing
You're right, and fellating SN is such a fresh perpsective to see for once! Thank you for contributing.
I have a feeling you're from Reddit, Facebook, or the Other Site where arguments are "actually solved" by the mods banning the opposition.
I have a low 2-digit SN uid that I don't use anymore. So blow me you carpet-bagging crybaby.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @03:13AM (2 children)
Hitler has been considered to be on the "right" because the popular alternative in the 1930s was literally communism.
He ran the national socialist party. The belief was that society was more important than the individual, and that this would be enforced by a strong government. By modern American standards, that is well to the left of mainstream democrats.
You can use "right of Hitler" to describe nearly all politics in the USA today. Hitler was even slightly left of Bernie Sanders.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @07:37AM (1 child)
The nationalist socialist party was so named because it was the result of the merger between the nationalist party and the socialist party. The nationalists ended up in power of the resulting party, but kept the name and thus the voters.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:56PM
No. Try reading the first three paragraphs here. [wikipedia.org]
In fact, when those two parties merged (Freien Arbeiterausschuss für einen guten Frieden (Free Workers' Committee for a good Peace) and Politischer Arbeiterzirkel (Political Workers' Circle)), "socialist" wasn't in the resulting party name (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP (German Workers' Party)) at all. And it sounds like both of them were *anti-communist.* The only thing socialist about them was "economic socialism;" they were anti-Marxist.
From the outset, the DAP was opposed to non-nationalist political movements, especially on the left, including the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Members of the DAP saw themselves as fighting against "Bolshevism" and anyone considered a part of or aiding so-called "international Jewry".
Unless maybe you're getting confused with this:
However, while Hitler was on a fundraising trip to Berlin in June 1921, a mutiny broke out within the Nazi Party in Munich. Members of its executive committee, some of whom considered Hitler to be too overbearing, wanted to merge with the rival German Socialist Party (DSP).[58] Hitler returned to Munich on 11 July and angrily tendered his resignation. The committee members realised that his resignation would mean the end of the party.[59] Hitler announced he would rejoin on the condition that he would replace Drexler as party chairman, and that the party headquarters would remain in Munich.[60] The committee agreed, and he rejoined the party on 26 July as member 3680.
The Nazis changed their name at several points--once because they got banned after the Beer Hall Putsch--but Hitler was pretty pissed at the Weimar government, which was fairly socialist. Pretending to be socialist at all was just a ploy to get higher membership.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"