Google’s equal-pay claim for women comes with an asterisk

Following a handful of big US companies in tech and finance, Google today said it found no significant difference in what it pays its male and female employees – with one big caveat. 

Alphabet Inc said that for 89% of Google’s more than 70,000 global employees, there was no “statistically significant” pay gap related to gender or race. The other 11%, left out of the analysis because they belonged to job groups that were either too small or too imbalanced to meet Google’s standards for “statistical rigor,” included the company’s senior vice-presidents and above.