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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 Rivenaleem on Tuesday April 11 2017, @10:36AM (2 children)
Wait, isn't there a gender pay gap specifically because women have not done something about the problem?
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:57PM
Why would women want to do anything about this “problem?”
They certainly would not want the deal given to men: figure it out or starve to death in a gutter, I don't care how, and fuck you.
Nobody has a problem with men starving to death. Men are accountable for their own actions. If a man doesn't like his station in life, we tell him he can either STFU or work “harder.”
Everybody wants to coddle women. Women are not accountable for their own actions. If a woman doesn't like her station in life, it's everybody's fault except for hers, and it's everybody's responsibility to do something about it except hers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @05:18PM
Wait, isn't there a gender pay gap specifically because women have not done something about the problem?
I don't know if you are joking or actually think that's an even remotely serious counter-argument.
But the gender pay gap has been massively reduced over the last 35 years. [pay-equity.org]
In 1980 women made 60% of what men made, today its nearly 80%.
That is the result of women working to fix the problem.