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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 Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:13PM
Assume a pay gap exists. Google genuinely discovers they can hire women to do the exact same quality and performance of work as men for let's say 70% of the wage, as one interpretation of the "extreme" pay gap mentioned. I'm a Google finance executive. My entire worth is measured in no small part by my economic performance. I can hire a man for 100 units of pay or I can hire a woman for 70 units of pay. Hrmmm what am I going to do? What am I going to do? This is a tough one. No, it's not.
This [google.com] is Google's "diversity" page. Well lo and behold 69% of their employees are male.
Companies now a days obtain effective immunity from oversight and investigation through a mix of regulatory capture and "donations" which are just a euphemism for bribes. Consider the major action taken against Microsoft over their anti-competitive practices against Netscape. Compare that to what they are doing today with Windows 10 in regards to just about everything. The only thing that changed was that Microsoft started "donating" exponentially more than they were before. Google bet hard on Hillary winning the election, and lost. They would have reaped the rewards and instead now they get to pay the price. As the article mentions the labor department’s lawyers have already asked the court to cancel all of the company’s federal contracts and block any future business with the government if it continues to refuse to comply with the audit.
This has little to nothing to do with gender. Google hires on merit and promotions are sought out by employees in a regular and formal process, instead of being arbitrarily cronyistically granted. If men were more ambitious and/or self confident then that might result in a disproportionate result but that goes against the narrative. Remember, men and women are absolutely and completely identical. Genetics be damned, the only difference is in social bias and systemic discrimination. Women can be just as ambitious as men. Great then, we have no problem with the system!