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I'm not taking Google's position, but couldn't Erica have a hidden agenda on this initiative? Is it only about transparency?

She does seem like a SJW and, if any discrepancies in compensation were found between gender/race/... , Google would be ultimately screwed.

Plus, with such large dataset, one could fallaciously assume differences without considering different countries,positions,...

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Equal pay is still regarded as a sinister "hidden agenda"? It's 2015, guys.

If you're intellectually honest, yes, still is a hidden agenda.

What does this even mean in this context? Being interested in whether you're illegally discriminated against is intellectual dishonesty?

Intelectually honestly: No. Agenda, yes. Hidden? No? It's a very unhidden, open, public agenda, when you lobby for transparency of pay.

"The sjw's are out to get me!!"

That wasn't really my point here.

Explicitly exposing facts is the attitude I'd expect from this community, instead of ridiculing and wrongly correlating it with ideologies.

The term "Social Justice Warrior" is often used to dismiss people who argue against discrimination in various arenas. If you want to be taken seriously in discussions about discrimination, then perhaps avoid it.

Putting that aside, I share pjc50's bemusement that arguing for equal pay qualifies as a "hidden agenda". I also don't find speculation the same as "explicitly exposing facts".

Using the term SJW is revealing an ideology, as surely as using M$ in a thread about Microsoft. You might not subscribe to it but most people are going to jump to that conclusion.

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