Iceland becomes first country to legalise equal pay

Re:Iceland becomes first country to legalise equal pay by falcolas on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:32AM (#16061224)

There isn't a huge gap, not for the same job/title combination (there are cases where the gap does exist for the same job, but it's typically less than 10%). The gap widely most widely reported, the 70% figure, is primarily caused because of the genders holding different jobs, where the average pay for female-dominated jobs is less than the average pay for male-dominated jobs.

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Re:Iceland becomes first country to legalise equal pay by wrsh07 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:00AM (#16062050)

So... this is light on details into their analysis, but Laszlo Block [formerly of Google - where I work fwiw], claimed "In 2015 we added 8,214 employees to Google. And the women we hired, on average, received a 30 percent bigger salary increase upon joining the company, compared to men."

If you accepted his claim that Google does pay genders equitably, then this would indicate a large pay disparity outside of Google.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/04...

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Re:Iceland becomes first country to legalise equal pay by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:04AM (#16062081)

> If you accepted his claim that Google does pay genders equitably, then this would indicate a large pay disparity outside of Google.

Or it would indicate a successful outreach program at Google for women by which they were successful at getting qualified women not currently working in tech to apply; this doesn't necessarily imply a like-duties gender pay gap.

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Re:Iceland becomes first country to legalise equal pay by collyw on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @12:08PM (#16062726)

Could it indicate discrimination against men at Google?

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Re:Iceland becomes first country to legalise equal pay by falcolas on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:51AM (#16062597)

There's a lot of variables which are not being taken into account there. If you hired a person from outside SV, and another from within SV, you immediately have a 40-50% difference in salary increases. Or, if you hire one person out of an advertising company and another out of a software company, the difference will be quite large.

It's also a bit of a weasely statement - to quote Penn & Teller, they are lying with numbers - since it doesn't mention the current difference in wages.

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Re:Iceland becomes first country to legalise equal pay by Brotkrumen on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:34AM (#16062396)

10% adjusted is pretty large. Even sub-10% usually works out to a couple of thousand each year.

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Re:Iceland becomes first country to legalise equal pay by falcolas on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:46AM (#16062537)

Yes, it's large, but it's also only practically visible when you can see all of the wages for all companies. Pay gaps between individuals in the same company - regardless of gender - can be much larger than 10%, since your wage (in the US) depends more on your wage at your last job than your actual skill level.

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