A lot of people's pay at big tech companies is based on ability to negotiate at time of offer, not on job performance at the company. I know some women in the

A lot of people's pay at big tech companies is based on ability to negotiate at time of offer, not on job performance at the company. I know some women in the same role as me that got better initial offers because they were in a better position to negotiate. My assumption is that women that are underpaid because they didn't negotiate, or due to some other bias, or just due to random factors, would also want men in similar situations to be compensated equally. Ideally two individuals in the same or similar roles, with similar performance over time in that role, should have the same salary regardless of background or negotiation ability. The major issue with this is that you can't reduce pay of rockstar negotiators (who may or may not be rockstar performers), and a correction that pays everyone as much as the highest earning equivalent employee might be hard for even Google to swallow.