https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/9/14/16308740/google-class-action-sexism-gender-pay-lawsuit Anyone else care to comment on their experiences? This happens at Boeing too. I don't think there are any current lawsuits, but I have heard women talk about it. As a male, I hate the idea that my gender might play a role in my success. It really steals from the sense of pride I feel for the merit of my work as a craftsman in engineering. If I'm ranked higher than a female colleague, I want to know and have faith that it was because I earned it through skill and hard work, not because I have a genetic advantage. Sickens me.
Here's the classic example of how pervasive sexism is. Even WSJ stock photo dude just showed a woman's bust with company name :/
This is one of those things where its so obviously a bad idea it's funny. I laugh at your stupidity WSJ.
Hmm. They need to show one with just dicks to balance it out obviously
Just an addition to my post. So I have to give Boeing credit for what they have been getting right. While people do talk about gender disparity in pay, there have been huge advancements in upward mobility for women at Boeing. Whiles its not 50/50, there are a huge number of women in influential management positions overseeing very large initiatives. Lots of female leads too.
Person who got hired the same time as I did to the same team got a salary that was $10k higher than mine. Who do I complain to? Ps: both of us are males, one Asian, the other one European.
Maybe they had competing offers or that they made more money before they joined so microsoft had to offer them more to join? Negotiating a salary is very common these days.
Nope, straight out of college, no competing offers. And this was 10years ago. I am just trying to say that unfortunately there's pay gap regardless of race, gender, etc.
The lawsuit as it stands makes zero sense. The leading plaintiff got hired at L3 because she minored in CS and worked in the field briefly. She was complaining that a white male with a PhD in CS got hired at L4, discounting the fact that brilliant women experts like Feifei Li got hired at director level.
At four years of experience, L3 does seem like downleveling.
A male friend of mine got l3 as well with about 4 years of experience. A couple from Microsoft and a couple from Salesforce. Downleveling happens to everyone and it depends on interview performance. There are so many factors that go into comp that calling out one possible aspect and expecting that to be the "cause" is not sound.
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Maybe these companies shouldn't be idiots and should compensate both genders equally. Google deserves this entirely.
The problem is that comp is based on negotiation and competing offers. Nobody is paid equally.
My bet is that they lowball women..