In 2015 we added 8,214 employees to Google. And the women we hired, on average, received a 30 percent bigger salary increase upon joining the company, compared to men.
Does that sound fair to you?
Study after study demonstrates that women are paid less than men in the United States. Equal Pay Day, three weeks ago, marked the number of additional days women needed to work into 2016 to "catch up" with what men were paid in the prior year. Indeed, in a recent paper, Cornell professors Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn found that women were paid 79 cents for each dollar a man was paid. Even after adjusting for type of job, industry, experience, location and education, the gap remained 92 cents for each dollar.
