Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Three female former Google employees have filed a lawsuit against the search giant alleging gender-based pay discrimination, as the Associated Press reported. The former employees, Kelly Ellis, Holly Pease and Kelli Wisuri, all left the company after being put on career paths within the company that they say would pay them less than their male counterparts.

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Link to actual article

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's the actual source from the Washington Post rather than some blog or whatever the source cited in the summary is.

Re: it was inevitable

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone on Twitter said it best: by firing Damore, Google rejected the only explanation for the gender gap that doesn't leave Google at fault.

Re:Settles in for Reasoned Debate

[ArylAkamov]

"reverse discrimination" .

This strawman is getting old, along with all the others in your post.

Kelly Ellis

[Anonymous Coward]

Name sounds familiar. Oh yeah, She claimed she was sexually harassed two years ago. Obviously, nothing came of it, so she moved on to the next feminist myth.

Note to anyone hiring: Do not hire people who put "Patriarchy Smashing" on their list of skills on LinkedIn. Or this will happen to you!

So many lawsuits

[BrookHarty]

So many lawsuits, class action on age discrimination, class action on sex discrimination for women, soon a class action on sex discrimination from men fired by James and people he's contacting, multiple lawsuits for interfering with businesses on videos, advertising, search engine ranking in the EU, etc.

It's almost like instead of focusing on business, Googles views are causing all these lawsuits. Crazy how that karma comes back.

ORLY?

[mark-t]

Gender or minority-based pay discrimination can be identified by answering just one simple question: are there any jobs in the company or organization that are performed both by people across the relevant demographics being compared with approximately the same level of experience where there is a difference in rate of pay? If yes, then there is discrimination. If not, then you cannot infer that there is any. Even when the jobs that pay the most are dominated by whiite males, for example, you cannot reasonably infer pay discrimination based upon that statistic because there can be a multitude of factors which can impact which people even both to apply for certain types of jobs, and which are entirely outside of the company's ability to control. The only thing you can reasonably expect a company to do is to pay its employees ethically and fairly for the work that they do, and this pay should be reflective only of the demands that the work places upon an individual. Trying to get companies to fix sociological and societal problems that might cause people of mostly one gender to apply only for certain types of positions in the first place cannot reasonably be expected to be a company's responsibility to mitigate. That responsibility falls on all of us... not to give women or minorities more incentive to apply for such jobs, but to not give them any disincentive to do so.

Re:ORLY?

[malkavian]

"The Economist" did an article on this. The end result from it (in the UK anyway) was that the gender pay gap was a fraction of a percentage point in a like for like. Inside a given company, with the same responsibilities and title, women earned the same as men. Women in a company tended to go for the lower paid, more hourly flexible positions, which is what dragged the average down. This is from the statistics gathered by a consultancy (Korn Ferry) with about 25 million sample points. That's reasonably robust.
The UK as a 0.8% difference in post from men to women for exactly the same role.
Oddly, the cries around this are suddenly that women must be given equal shares in the board rooms and at higher management. It doesn't say whether skills and choices lean that direction or not, simply that this must be made so.
You're absolutely right as far as I can see that people must be given every chance to shine, irrespective of gender, colour, or whatever. If they can do the jobs well, that's what counts.
 

Re: Settles in for Reasoned Debate

[Anonymous Coward]

I must have read a different memo. The memo I read implied that a large portion of the writer's co-workers are innately less qualified and shouldn't be there

I think you did. The memo we're all talking about was saying that competent women weren't as interested in working at Google because they created an environment that is hostile to women. Apparently these women are agreeing.