Google staff walk out over women's treatment

Re:Google staff walk out over women's treatment by SolaceQuantum on Thursday November 01, 2018 @09:29AM (#18353670)

"Another stunning but perhaps unsurprising finding was that 63% of the time, men were offered higher salaries than women for the same role at the same company. The report found that companies were offering women between 4% and a whopping 45% less starting pay for the same job. "

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyatarr/2018/04/04/by-the-num...

Report referenced: https://hired.com/wage-inequality-report

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Re:Google staff walk out over women's treatment by krona on Thursday November 01, 2018 @04:39PM (#18358193)

At a casual glance, the 4-45% statistic also applies in the inverse direction, so it's fairly meaningless when discussing gender inequality.

The more appropriate statistic would be that "on average, women are offered 4% less" which seems to have been produced by integrating an estimation of the probability density, and looking at the non-symmetry of the distribution. It seems most of that difference is concentrated within 10% on the mean.

So (roughly) if you're a man, you had a 50% chance of being offered 4% more than a woman, and maybe a 30% chance of being offered 4% less than a woman.

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