Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men

Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by chc on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:41PM (#19306381)

I'm talking about outcomes for female programmers here. You're saying that female programmers don't program, and therefore they deserve to be paid less than male programmers, who presumably do program? Or what? Who are these female programmers who don't program that you're apparently so interested in talking about?

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Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by haberman on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:54PM (#19306494)

Women who achieve the same things as men deserve the same compensation. I don't think anyone on this thread disagrees with that.

This article is about a comprehensive review of salaries at Google that concluded that overall, women who achieved the same job levels as men were being paid more.

The opportunity vs. outcome question is applied to the question of representation. How many women should we expect to see at Google, across job levels, if the process for selecting and promoting people is fair?

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Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by stcredzero on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:52PM (#19306482)

You're saying that female programmers don't program, and therefore they deserve to be paid less

This is weird. That's not how I read what leereeves wrote at all. Yet you repeatedly insist that's what he's saying. Are you perhaps projecting an opinion onto leereeves? Preferences can very much influence the outcomes of a training pipeline for a field. (I say this as someone who taught a class attended by Chic Tech students.) That's just common sense.

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Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by chc on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:57PM (#19306508)

I'm trying to get leereeves to actually explain what he means. What sort of difference do people think exists between men and women that makes them deserve to, for example, be paid less for the same work (i.e. worse outcome) without being worse at the job?

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Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by leereeves on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:06PM (#19306565)

You're asking me to explain something that may not even be true. According to the article, your scenario is not reality:

> When Google conducted a study recently to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority groups, it found, to the surprise of just about everyone, that men were paid less money than women for doing similar work.

men were paid less money than women for doing similar work.

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