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I agree a 100% that more must be done for gender equality and that gathering more data to understand wage gap mechanism is needed. That being said, and conside
by Twisell 9y ago
I agree a 100% that more must be done for gender equality and that gathering more data to understand wage gap mechanism is needed.
That being said, and considering that a part of my job is to help gather data from 50+ différents sources with diferent data models, I can agree with google on one point.
Gathering data from one point going forward is easy, gathering historical data from a system not designed with logging in mind is a huge pain.
As is usually forbidden in most democracy to issue a law with retroactive effects, it's maybe not a good thing to expect that retroactive dataset should be mandatory. That more of a work for historians and social-science researchers.
- rmc 9y agoI'm gonna go out on a limb here, and guess that Google has been recording internal things digitally for a while. It is a tech company. Sure, it might not be as easy as "just a SQL query". But if they can make cars which drive themselves, they can figure this out.
- albinofrenchy 9y agoRetro active datasets are commonly court ordered. Laws aren't retroactive, but all court proceedings are retrospective. Googles 100k assertion here is bullshit. They did a calculation that handing that data over, or even just collating it, would leave them in a worse position than fighting it.
- pfooti 9y agoTo be fair, they could get the cost down to $74k if they had a woman do the research.
- nickpeterson 9y agoZing