Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Women Less Than Men

Re:Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Wome... by aceon48 on Friday September 15, 2017 @12:20AM (#15254611)

Your argument is irrational. If a company could get away with paying someone 70%, they would only hire the 70 percenters, or at least disproportionality. Google has roughly 20% female engineers, in line with the 20% female CS grad population.

Seriously... if there's some nefarious bias, it would mean a company hiring more women than expected, bc they can "under" pay them. Silly irrational people.

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Re:Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Wome... by dasil003 on Friday September 15, 2017 @12:50AM (#15254725)

Well no, Google wants to hire all the best engineers they can find, even if they have to pay more. Obviously they don't want to pay more than they have to, but their primary concern is capturing as much of the top talent as they can.

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Re:Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Wome... by TeMPOraL on Friday September 15, 2017 @02:13AM (#15255022)

Which is how you end up with worker demographics reflecting the grad demographics, as it is expected when there's no bias involved...

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Re:Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Wome... by dasil003 on Friday September 15, 2017 @12:16PM (#15258309)

Agreed, I don't think there is overt bias, however it doesn't rule out industry-wide systemic bias which I think is real.

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