> In response to the study, Google gave $9.7 million in additional compensation to 10,677 employees for this year. Men account for about 69 percent of the company’s work force, but they received a higher percentage of the money. The exact number of men who got raises is unclear.
Our ability to talk about difficult things in a sensible way is so often thwarted by the unwillingness to just follow the simplest explanation first.
As if humans were designed for preferentially seeking extraordinary explanations
You can assume there's a wide variance, but all that would mean is that most employees are paid basically correctly with a few outliers. If anything, that would diminish the value of the story.