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The DoL claims "discrimination against women in Google is quite extreme, even in this industry", while Google claims "every year, we do a comprehensive and robu
by antoncohen 10y ago
The DoL claims "discrimination against women in Google is quite extreme, even in this industry", while Google claims "every year, we do a comprehensive and robust analysis of pay across genders and we have found no gender pay gap".
DoL is probably lacking data, and has a somewhat simplistic methodology (i.e., they see woman are paid less, but they don't know why). I highly doubt Google is intentionally discriminating against woman, I actually think they are probably trying very hard to have equal employment practices. But they still might be discriminating without knowing it.
Here is what could e happening: The DoL says "you pay women less, even when they have the same experience". Google says "we pay for performance, not experience, when you take performance into account there is no pay gap".
What Google might be missing is that there are unconscious biases causing performance reviews of woman to be more negative. I think that is highly likely. My understanding is that Google is highly reliant of performance reviews and performance pay, so under those conditions the DoL might be correct in saying discrimination is "quite extreme, even in this industry".