[aceon48]

Your argument is irrational. If a company could get away with paying someone 70%, they would only hire the 70 percenters, or at least disproportionality. Google has roughly 20% female engineers, in line with the 20% female CS grad population.

Seriously... if there's some nefarious bias, it would mean a company hiring more women than expected, bc they can "under" pay them. Silly irrational people.

[dasil003]

Well no, Google wants to hire all the best engineers they can find, even if they have to pay more. Obviously they don't want to pay more than they have to, but their primary concern is capturing as much of the top talent as they can.

[TeMPOraL]

Which is how you end up with worker demographics reflecting the grad demographics, as it is expected when there's no bias involved...

[dasil003]

Agreed, I don't think there is overt bias, however it doesn't rule out industry-wide systemic bias which I think is real.