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I can't wait to see Googles response. I have no idea why they would even open themselves up to this criticism when they could easily align the salaries.

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Google already responded, they essentially claim there is no gap, that there was one in the past but that they worked very hard to close that gap. They also question the governments methods to arrive at their conclusions.

Without data to back up either position debate is pretty much meaningless.

That's good to know. Not sure why I was downvoted for wanting to know Google's response.

Google basically claims they have internal programs and have reached pay parity globally. The DoL says that's not true based on the data they've viewed. There seems to be a lot of lawyer scaremongering on both sides, I'd wait for this case to progress more before choosing a side.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/07/google-pa...

They responded and denied it; frankly it's plausible that they're correct (but also that they're not). It's not yet fair to assume one party is correct over the other while both try to drive the media presentation. Let it play out.

I would lean towards both being correct depending on how they looked at the data. If you did purely education level, degree field and years of experience related to position then I would expect minimal deviation. However, you can go further tweaking how you look at each of those variables.

They did respond, they denied any pay gap.

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