Accused of underpaying women, Google says it's too expensive to get wage data
Can someone explain how they would be able to get away with paying women less than men?<p>And if your answer is: "They just pay them less."<p>1) Why? What is the purpose of them doing this?<p>2) Why don't they also just pay men less as well?<p>3) Wages trend, in a competitive market, towards marginal productivity of labor. What is preventing competitors in the market for engineers from poaching all of the underpaid yet equally talented women at below market costs, say half the gap Google is assumed to be creating? Surely this would be a clear path towards extra profits, no?