Tech group Google is willing to pay 118 million dollars, converted more than 112 million euros, to settle a lawsuit because of gender discrimination. So say law firms representing 15,500 female employees of the company. Independent experts also review the company’s personnel policy, including looking at the recruitment process.
“As a woman who has spent her entire career in the tech industry, I’m optimistic that the actions Google has taken as part of this settlement will bring greater equality to women,” said Holly Pease, one of the women who signed the deal. case has filed.
The female employees say Google pays women more than $16,500 a year less than men who are “in the same situation”. That would appear from an analysis by David Neumark, an economist at the University of California at Irvine.
The settlement has yet to be approved by the court.