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Google Finds It's Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity
When Google conducted a study recently to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority groups, it found, to the surprise of just about everyone, that men were paid less money than women for doing similar work.
The study, which disproportionately led to pay raises for thousands of men, is done every year, but the latest findings arrived as Google and other companies in Silicon Valley face increasing pressure to deal with gender issues in the workplace, from sexual harassment to wage discrimination.
Gender inequality is a radioactive topic at Google. The Labor Department is investigating whether the company systematically underpays women. It has been sued by former employees who claim they were paid less than men with the same qualifications. And last fall, thousands of Google employees protested the way the company handles sexual harassment claims against top executives.
Critics said the results of the pay study could give a false impression. Company officials acknowledged that it did not address whether women were hired at a lower pay grade than men with similar qualifications.
In response to the study, pay raises were given out to 10,677 employees, with men accounting for 69% of Google's employees but an undisclosed higher percentage of the raises.
Google blog post. Also at Ars Technica, NPR, and TechCrunch.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Thexalon on Tuesday March 05 2019, @08:13PM (4 children)
I'm sure the male supremacists around here aren't going to believe this, but this finding suggests that the survey efforts are being done honestly. These findings mean that the problem they were trying to correct was real, but they over-corrected and are now pushing back a bit. And given that all of these changes involve working stiffs and cube dwellers getting a raise, I'm perfectly OK supporting them.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @08:16PM
How does it feel being a parody?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @08:32PM
Is there any data they could find that you wouldn't twist to support your pre-existing worldview?
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Tuesday March 05 2019, @09:08PM
I would argue it does not suggest anything. It is one of the epidemiological results, where certain groups are compared and a whole lot of factors are ignored (TL;DR though). Recall the studies about student grades. You might argue that the factor "job title" is accounted for. But how is it defined, i.e. does it equate to identical work performance? How about strata within the groups? The truth can go both ways and this survey seems more like a classic management strategy to rid themselves of an unleasant topic (but the survey said so).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 06 2019, @02:44AM
You are on on a thinner branch than climate denialists. You're seriously looney. You're conclusions are so asinine that the best thing anyone can do is completely ignore you. You're the cause of dead brain cells.
Even anti-vaxers have more supporting evidence than you.
You need to be ignored to the fringes of society, the only safe place for people like you. The one bad part about the internet is is gives an audience to people such as you.