At Google, Employee-Led Effort Finds Men Are Paid More Than Women
It feels like these things become self-fulfilling prophecies, because of the way this issue is reported on. If &quot;seven of nine technology companies, including Apple, Amazon.com and Microsoft, [disclosed] that data&quot;, would it be too much for an article to compare the unofficial Google numbers to that data?<p>I&#x27;m not a big fan of large companies, I don&#x27;t think they can win. Even if you have good numbers, that doesn&#x27;t fit the narrative of &quot;Silicon Valley has established itself as the boys’ club&quot;. Say for example, we applauded companies who are doing better, maybe even close to statistical significance, then you could say, &quot;Hey, it&#x27;s still not quite there yet, but it&#x27;s close and we&#x27;re doing better than others. Come work for us and help us make it right.&quot; And then that would be actionable advice, and companies would have a great reason to strive for this. But we&#x27;d also have to be honest about statistical error rates, and maybe some other stuff.<p>I&#x27;ll close on this, I&#x27;ve heard people say stupid and offensive shit when they&#x27;re drunk, but never &quot;Hey, let&#x27;s pay women less&quot;, although I&#x27;m not an executive. So I feel like it isn&#x27;t a common thought... unless you keep reading articles like this one.