#GenderBias #EqualPay #AppleLawsuit
🍎 Have you heard about the recent lawsuit against Apple, claiming that women are punished for behaviors that get men promoted? This could potentially lead to thousands of female employees being owed back pay.
🍏 It’s disheartening to see this kind of gender bias still happening in the workplace in 2021. But, what can we do to combat this issue and ensure that everyone is treated fairly?
💡 Here are some possible solutions we can consider to address this inequality:
– Implementing unconscious bias training for managers and HR staff
– Conducting pay equity audits to ensure equal pay for equal work
– Encouraging transparency around promotion decisions and criteria
– Creating support networks for women in the workplace
What are your thoughts on this issue? How do you think we can work towards a more equitable and inclusive workplace for all? Let’s start a conversation and share our ideas for creating positive change! 💬🌟
thousands of dollars… that’s outrageous. how could apple ever afford to pay that? 😮
Lawsuits can say anything they want, even without evidence.
You get what you negotiate.
As a woman in tech this is absolutely not surprising.
Metoo corporate version
Oh oh oh now do … Every fucking job ever!
As an engineer, men want women to act like their wives and not like them. We are to be deferential, agreeable, etc… The minute you take a stand or say no I don’t think this will work, you must not be a team player. It’s horrible.
So we should apply different standards when it comes to promotions?
Not exclusive to tech I’m afraid.
I don’t understand this lawsuit. This problem isn’t exclusive to women. Some men also make less than other men for doing the same job. This is why companies don’t want you to share salary information.
>Apple also seemingly has “a policy or practice of selecting individuals who have ‘talent’ and compensating those persons more highly than other employees.” But neither Jong nor Salgado—although both have held various leadership roles—were ever designated as “talent” deserving of a pay increase, the lawsuit said.
The feels were hurt. We’re all talented.
When I worked there it was the complete opposite at my store lmao
This happens all over tech. I’m surprised anyone is doing anything about it.
and the moral of the story
don’t hire women
No company should have salaries determined by the opinions of anyone in the company at all. They should be based on length of employment, along with a pay scale that brings all people on at the same pay rate, and increases that based on time served. This eliminates the possibility of a pay gap. My company does this and it keep everything fair
So I’m not sure what’s going on at Apple but in my years in software engineering both as an interviewer and as a coworker… I have been pressured to give women easier interviews than men because we “need” gender equality. I’ve also been bullied by both female managers as well as male managers. I’ve watched women get promoted undeservingly because they’re women and representation or whatever.
I’ve seen discrimination against color, race, gender, nationality, etc…. But… I’ve never seen someone who is a 10x performer not be successful unless their leadership was directly targeting that individual for personal reasons.
Whether someone gets paid more I don’t know. Companies always try to pay as little as possible and we all have to fight for salary.
I’m certain there’s a real complaint here, and I feel for the people who have been paid and treated badly by the company, but this is kind of a terrible article.
The article doesn’t even mention what the headline is talking about. Ok, women and men have not been paid equally at Apple for performing substantially similar work. But what behavior sees women get punished while men get promoted with the same behavior?
The apparent main complainant, Jong, had to have a desk by Weilert and continue to work with him, even after he admitted to, touching her “in a sexually suggestive manner without her consent” and then later he was promoted, but is the article saying women at Apple are sexually touching men in a suggestive manner without the consent of the men involved?
What is the “same behaviors” in the headline?