Google owes executive $1 million after losing gender bias lawsuit
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6FRPK)
Illustration: The Verge A jury found Google guilty of sexual discrimination and awarded female Google Cloud executive Ulku Rowe, who filed the complaint, $1.1 million. Rowe's lawsuit alleged that the company gave higher pay to less-experienced male cohorts and that it later denied her promotions in retaliation for her complaints, both internal and later in court.
Bloomberg Law reported that the jury ruled that Google owes Rowe for both punitive damages and pain and suffering. However, the jury reportedly found that while Google treated Rowe differently than other employees because of her gender," Rowe hadn't proven that Google violated New York law by paying her less than two of her male counterparts.
Rowe said before the trial started that her time at Google...