Another thing to bear in mind: this is self-reported data. Even if the population numbers were perfectly fair, there are known differences in the way men and wo

Another thing to bear in mind: this is self-reported data. Even if the population numbers were perfectly fair, there are known differences in the way men and women report things in surveys (example[1]). Personally, I conjecture that this bias and biases in response rates that affect men and women differently account for some of the reported differences in salary. I'm more concerned about stuff that wouldn't show up in this data. For example, assuming a woman who is equally qualified as a man, I expect that the woman would be at a lower level on average, because e.g. of studies like those cited in [2]. I suspect that Google is better about this than most places, but I have heard too many stories from my woman coworkers to believe that things are perfectly fair. But I suspect this article makes things out to be perhaps slightly worse than they are, at least on the compensation front. [1]: https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-05-30/women-underestimate-sexual-partners-while-men-exaggerate-says-study https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-05-30/women-underestimate-s... [2]: https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men