Results of a recent Google pay equity study concluded that the tech giant has been paying women more than men for the same job. And they are making one time payouts to the men to make up for the hardship
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Overpaying women in Silicon Valley hasn’t traditionally been much of a problem, but results of a recent Google pay equityconcluded that the tech giant has been doing just that. Really, Google thinks they’re paying women more than men for the same work. And they are making one-time payouts to the men to make up for the hardship. Needless to say, the study most likely did not capture the true state of gender bias at Google.
There was one large job category, what Googlers call Level 4 Software Engineer, in which women were paid more than men. Men in this category were given extra compensation to make reparations for the gender bias against them. It's not clear how many of the 10,677 employees who were given extra adjustments were men from this category.
The statistical analysis conducted at Google compared Level 3 employees only to other Level 3 employees. It compared Level 4s only to other Level 4s. If women are assigned to Level 3 and equally or lesser qualified men are assigned to Level 4, Google’s current methodology will think everything is just fine. In other words, Google's statistical test wouldn't catch the problem described in Ellis's lawsuit.
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