Comment by dragonwriter

> Wouldn't it be easier to create an algorithm for compensation which clearly didn't involve gender (i.e. no deep learning stuff). Something which boils down to base salary + experience factor + google service factor.

You mean, the kind of thing basically every public sector employer has, where alleged gender pay gap is never an issue?

Yes, of course that’s easy to do.

OTOH, private sector employers like to have personal productivity be a factor, but don't have good objective metrics for that, so they let subjective assessment play a major role, such that the biases of managers become a substantial factor in setting pay.