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Google offers $118m to settle gender discrimination lawsuit

Kabukiwookie

alleging the search giant hires women in lower-paying positions compared to men despite them having the same qualifications.

Same qualifications does not equal same skill and experience level.

Female staff are also less likely to get promoted, it was claimed.

To be promoted you have to be assertive, men usually are more aggressive in pursuing promotions and are usually more able to put in overtime as women are generally mkre interested in a gold work-life balance.

You can't expect to have a good work-life balance and still get the promotion (well, you can, but it's not realistic to anyone aside for millenials, who think that no effort is needed, because even without trying they're all special snow flakes and they also have the right to get anything other people, who do put in effort, get.

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