this nyt story was disappointing and poorly reported, and certain men in tech are going to be using it for a long time as proof that they are the ones who are marginalized in this industry, when the reality is anything but that.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/google-gender-pay-gap.html …
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i realize that reporters don't control headlines, but someone out there wrote a headline that is, effectively, free pr for google in a time when they've been accused of systematically underpaying women. the company can say what it wants; it's your job to call it into question.
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this story gets so close to asking the right questions but never does in any meaningful way. it shares this anecdote about
@justkelly_ok without saying that any analysis of equal pay needs to take systematic underleveling of women into account.pic.twitter.com/NKGfPqfBov
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hiring an engineer with four years of experience into l3 is fucking wild! i've never once heard of anything like that happening to a man. if you're comparing pay across levels, of course it'll look distorted when you're putting mid- to senior-level women alongside new grads.
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Yup, and I had no clue that it was such a junior level until after I started, when it was too late! As a new hire, "level 3" sounded mid-level but there's no 1 or 2!
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Totally this. I had no idea how levels worked at all until I was inside a BigCo. There’s a whole book’s worth of material on this to be written down someplace :/
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