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Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by criddell on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:27PM (#15010522)
One aspect I haven't read much about are the incentives that the big tech companies are offering women candidates.

You mention wage gaps but if the pool of qualified engineers is mostly men and Google (and other tech companies) want to hire women, it seems that salaries for women should be far, far higher than it is for men. The fact that they are close to equal might be part of the problem.

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Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by klipt on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:40PM (#15010653)
Openly offering different salaries based on gender is incredibly illegal.
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Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by dmurray on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:31PM (#15011948)
You could get around it by advertising a senior position, for which women applicants are sought, and a junior position, where everyone will be considered, with substantially the same responsibilities but different pay.

Would a US court disallow this? It doesn't seem to violate the spirit of affirmative action, or the letter of equality laws.

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Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by criddell on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:05PM (#15010923)
That's true, I didn't think of that. It does seem like it would be a more direct way for them to increase the number of women that work there though. To me it doesn't feel worse than allowing a numeric quota.

I suppose individual women are free to negotiate a higher salary.

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Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by wizu on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:56PM (#15010819)
True, you could let the market dictate their salaries, but then you run into the issue of paying one gender more money for the same amount of work, a practice outlawed under the Equality Pay Act of 1963.
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Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by stevenwoo on Monday August 14, 2017 @08:56PM (#15014453)
This hasn't stopped Google according to the Labor Department lawsuit. http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/04/technology/google-labor-depa...
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Re:I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Ap... by dragonwriter on Monday August 14, 2017 @08:59PM (#15014471)
The lawsuit in that article is about a dispute over Google providing employee contact information to support a Labor Dept audit, not about alleged pay discrimination.
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