From the article, Facebook's rebuttal is: "Any meaningful discrepancy based on the complete data is clearly attributable not to gender but to seniority of the e

From the article, Facebook's rebuttal is: "Any meaningful discrepancy based on the complete data is clearly attributable not to gender but to seniority of the employee." To play devil's advocate, this result is exactly what you'd expect if in the recent past, it was noticed there was a big shortage of women coming out of university with CompSci degrees, and companies had since been moving to fix that by recruiting junior devs that had since been trained in tech boot camps or other programs (e.g. https://girlswhocode.com/ https://girlswhocode.com/). To play devil's advocate against my devil's advocate, it's well documented that the wage gap is not primarily caused by women being paid less than men for the same work (the gap is around 4% less for the same job, so this is still a factor), it's by women not being promoted into higher paying jobs. So under that narrative Facebook's rebuttal doesn't address the root cause of the imbalance, and just kicks the can one hop down the causal chain. As with most news stories on this subject, we really need more data to be able to form an opinion; nobody should be updating their priors based on this article.