The article linked in the first article has Google claiming it has gender pay parity early on in the dispute versus the government saying this is a bad situatio

The article linked in the first article has Google claiming it has gender pay parity early on in the dispute versus the government saying this is a bad situation based on the sample of data the government received. The original article then has Google saying it cannot produce the data behind this gender pay equity claim. It seems logical to anyone who is not a lawyer that the plaintiff, Google, cannot have it both ways in the very same case, in fact it seems positively ludicrous.