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There was a company meeting one year at Amazon when they proudly announced that men and women were paid within 1-2% of each other for the same roles. It complet

There was a company meeting one year at Amazon when they proudly announced that men and women were paid within 1-2% of each other for the same roles. It completely missed the point which you raise. I want to see reports of average tenure and time between promotions by gender. I suspect that the reason we don't see those published is that the numbers are damning.

zaarn 8y ago
Or possibly noone did a study of sufficient size that passed peer review. It's also not hard to make the pay gap 1-2% just like it's not hard to make it 25% (both values are valid). Statistics is a fun field. Don't trust statistics you didn't fake yourself. Amazon could easily cook the numbers to get to 1-2%, I doubt anyone checked the process of determining that number if it's unbiased and fair and accounts for other factors or not.