Posted on 09/09/2017 4:43:56 AM PDT by reaganaut1
SAN FRANCISCO — Female employees are paid less than male staff members at most job levels within Google, and the pay disparity extends as women climb the corporate ladder, according to data compiled by employees that provide a snapshot of salary information at the internet giant.
A spreadsheet, obtained by The New York Times, contains salary and bonus information for 2017 that was shared by about 1,200 United States Google employees, or about 2 percent of the company’s global work force.
While Google said the data painted an incomplete picture of how people are paid, the salary details shared by employees are likely to heighten concerns over gender disparities in Silicon Valley.
Even as America’s technology giants continue to grow in wealth and influence, most have shown little progress in leveling the playing field for women, who are underrepresented in key engineering and leadership roles and are paid less than men. These gender imbalances are reflected in long-term studies of large companies around the world by the McKinsey Global Institute.
The scrutiny has been especially intense at Google. Long regarded as one of the world’s best workplaces because of its perks and generous compensation, the company is under examination by the Labor Department and has faced criticism from investors and some of its own employees over differences in how women and men are paid.
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James Finberg, a civil rights lawyer and partner at Altshuler Berzon L.L.P., said he expected to bring a class-action lawsuit against Google for “substantial gender disparities” later this month. Mr. Finberg said more than 90 current and former female employees have come forward to be plaintiffs.
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There’s a list of factors that cause this. Can’t remember it now. If you need it just as any Democrat politician why they pay women less than men and they can explain,
Both the Obama White House and the Clinton campaign paid men more than women on average , probably because the men did the more important higher level jobs like almost everywhere else.
“...he expected to bring a class-action lawsuit against Google...”
Ca-CHING!
Buy stock in companies building yachts!
Well men should be paid more than women, men are betterer than women. We are smarter they are more dumberer.
This is an employee led effort. Does this not contribute to a hostile workplace? Fire these employees as well, Googlebias.
In the Goolag? I’m shocked! /s
Wait until the civil rights attorneys catch wind of how little third world labor in India is paid to do programming vs. those in America working for the same company. Discrimination?
"Employee led effort" = resident feminists looking for more affirmative action.
Google is a tech company. You would expect them to pay top dollar for the best software people around, who tend to be mostly male.
This unequal pay stuff gets me since I have a government job which specifies the salary without distinction as to how a man or woman would be paid in the job.
Its all the same, its all equal. Everybody gets paid the same.
It must take a lot of bong hits to come up with this kind of research that claims pay discrimination.
In its annual diversity report, Google said only 20 percent of its higher-paid technical positions are filled by women, and women make up 31 percent of the company’s overall work force.The percentage of women in technical positions is lower than the overall percentage of female employees, with more women in sales, marketing, human resources or legal. Those roles, according to Ms. Naughton, do not have the same entry-level or midcareer salaries as technical positions.
Women at Google are paid less because most are engaged in sales and support of content and services. Most have much better work/life balance.
Anyone working at Google who wants a deeper perception should read their Nietzsche.
1. Starting salary & when hired & how long continuously in that position, 2. actual responsibilities & authority irrespective of “job level”, 3. nature of assigned duties (yes, companies do value some work/projects/missions differently than others), and 4. if Google is like many Liberal outfits a degree & what level of academic degree - can all make for pay differences; and mere snapshots of salaries tell none of those variables.
Maybe the women are not worth as much. Maybe the women are spending more time worrying about pay than working. Maybe they don’t work as much overall. Get them fainting chairs.
The more positive affirmative action Google undertakes to equalize their hiring, the more disparate the likely performances will be.
Just look at affirmative action in college admissions.
At my job they started promoting female admin-assistant types to fancy titles and big money (I assume for the PR involved as well as staving off lawsuits); it has led many of us men to start working like admin-assistant types. The days of unpaid overtime as “salaried” employees ended years ago when the diversity window-dressing started. The women involved were too ignorant to understand that they should at least put on a show of working more; they’re still LIFO (last in, first out).
The Leftist narrative is wholly incompatible with any semblance of decent cultural progress ... they rant and rave about "justice" but in the end all they want is tyrannical power for themselves ... but we're on to them, and the squishy middle is finally getting a clue as well ... the Left is finished, as well as their power-hungry handmaidens, the Democrat Party
~ MM ~
You left out the most important aspect: How much would it cost to pay someone else to do their jobs? I’ve watched female managers only hire other women because they are terrified of a truly competent men hired as underlings taking their jobs. They don’t just hire women; they hire women that are borderline incompetent because a good female worker would also push them out.
I have witnessed female managers that were HORRIBLE to females under them and other females in the company - as if it was a behavior driven by “I got up here but you dam sure are not going to”.
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