A lawsuit alleges that women at Google make on average $2,000 less [than men as a result of discriminatory practices.
The former employees who brought the lawsuit against Google said that the company divides employees into different responsibility levels, but women are often pushed into lower-level job tracks and paid less than men with similar responsibilities despite having similar education and abilities.
Google has been running yearly pay equity analyses since 2012 to address pay equality. As a result of these investigations, the company has made salary adjustments for 2% of employees in 2019. Google also said the claims in this lawsuit are unfounded.
友善讓你懂 │ 解說：
追求性別平等是進步的指標，也是社會共識，在看似平等的現代社會，還是有不少性別歧視或不公平的現象，例如薪資差距，連科技龍頭Google也不例外。
一些Google前員工指控，自己的薪水比相同職位男性同事少，也指出Google刻意將女性分派到等級較低的職位，即使她們的能力與教育背景，都與男性同事相似或更高，因此也只能獲得較少的薪水。
Google表示他們致力於薪水平等，也在2019年調薪2%，並指出這些指控子虛烏有。然而，薪水不平等的現象不只發生在Google，性別差異也不該成為給薪的指標。
輕鬆帶著走 │ 學習：
薪資差異屢見不鮮，英文就做pay gap，gap是鴻溝，引申就是薪水之間的差異，也可以用在例如貧富差距wealth gap，或是我們常聽到的「代溝」generation gap
因為性別而產生的薪資差異，就叫做gender pay gap，是一種discrimination歧視，也是sexism性別歧視。
許多人在爭取的，是「equal pay for equal work」，也就是「同工同酬」。
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