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0 pointshaberman7y ago0 comments

> The passage you quote makes it clear the disparity is in absolute numbers, not proportions, as your earlier comment suggests.

It says no such thing. The "large number" of underpaid men is not being compared against the number of underpaid women.

The article still contains these quotes, which clearly establish that the equity pay raises went disproportionately to men:

> The study, which disproportionately led to pay raises for thousands of men [...]

> In response to the study, Google gave $9.7 million in additional compensation to 10,677 employees for this year. Men account for about 69 percent of the company’s work force, but they received a higher percentage of the money.

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YeGoblynQueenne7y ago

>> a large number of men identified as being underpaid compared with their female peers

This sentence compares the number of men identified as underpaid to the number of women identified as underpaid.

>> The study, which disproportionately led to pay raises for thousands of men

"Disproportionate" is used to signify something that is "out of proportion", in a lay sense, not in the mathematical sense of the ratio between two numbers. It is not a mathematical term that signifies a comparison between percentages, as your comment seems to suggest.

>> they received a higher percentage of the money.

This says nothing about the proportion of men or women who were found to be underpaid. It refers to the percentage of men who received more money. The justification for that is that there are more men in the company.

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