On: Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men

[xienze]

A similar thing has happened with companies that go to great lengths to make sure they don't have any gender bias in their hiring process (no face-to-face during interviews, voice altering during phone interviews, etc.) only to find that they still selected more men than women. The conclusion, of course, is that they must be doing something wrong because it's simply impossible that they wouldn't be selecting a perfect 50/50 mix of men and women.

Similarly, I think imagine Google will find similar flaws with how these numbers were generated.

[myrandomcomment → xienze]

Well it depends on the field. What is the ratio of male to female CS graduates? A quick check seems to say that in 2015 is was only 15% female.

[billfruit → myrandomcomment]

That figure is almost reversed in many third world countries. In my CS undergrad, there were 40 women and 20 men.

[crooked-v → xienze]

It's extremely difficult to actually hide all signs of gender, even with the measures you mentioned. Even simple things like the way a job advertisement or a resume is worded can suggest the genders of the people involved in a statistically predictable way. For example: http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/static/documents/Gauch...