This article mentions how Google is being sued by America’s
Department of Labour (DoL) for underpaying their female workers. Google recently
released a statement in which they stated that they had eliminated any gender
wage gap that they might have had at some point. However, with this new lawsuit
they might be proven wrong. This article also explains how the number of women
that join the engineering and technology work fields has decreased in the past
years. This might be due to the fact that women who work in places such like
these have complained about the work environment. Some women have experience
sexual harassment as well as they have felt excluded from networking social
events. Recent statistic show that only about 18% of computer-science graduates
were women, which is lower than in the past few years.
I wonder if this lawsuit will hurt Google as a company or if it would just get ignored. Also, I wonder if this would encourage other companies to listen to their female workers, eliminate the wage gap, and do something to stop sexual harassment in the work place.
I wonder if this lawsuit will hurt Google as a company or if it would just get ignored. Also, I wonder if this would encourage other companies to listen to their female workers, eliminate the wage gap, and do something to stop sexual harassment in the work place.
Link here.
1 comment:
I find it interesting that the department that accused Google of this hasn't released the data to back its assertion that Google is underpaying women AND Google hasn't given their information on pay to the DoL either. The article could stop there but it further pushes the subject by offering unnecessary comments and speculation.
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