Google Accused Of Gender discriminition

Google is facing an intensive investigation from the Department of Labor over alleged pay discrimination. A Labor Department official According to recent news  when she testified in court that “we found systemic compensation disparities against women” at the search giant.

But Google HR executive Eileen Naughton denied these charges, arguing that the company had rigorous statistical tests in place to ensure that men and women in comparable positions received equal pay.

According to the media report, government is suing Google, a government contractor, to release compensation data in order to make sure the company is complying with equal opportunity laws. In a press release about the lawsuit, the DoL said that Google has had "many opportunities to produce this information voluntarily," but has "refused to do so."

Harin Contractor was an economic adviser to the Secretary of Labor under President Obama, and he says the pay gap is complicated.

"These companies need to try a little harder to encourage diversity," Contractor says, adding that often in the tech industry the people making hiring and promotion decisions are white men. "Sometimes they can get caught up in their bubble and feel like they're very open," he says. "But when it's always the same type of person making the decisions. ... maybe it's not conscious."

For the past several years, Google has released its diversity data publicly in an annual report, that has shown a persistent dearth of women and minorities at the top. Last year, women represented just

31 percent of Google's workforce, and held just 24 percent of leadership roles.

Google says it vehemently disagreed with the charges of sex discrimination, which the Mountain View, California, company said it hadn't heard until Wipper's court appearance.