Google's gender bust-up: 'Discrimination against women in Google is extreme'

Google’s gender pay gap dispute with the US Department of Labour (DoL) rumbles on as a solicitor for the agency claims “discrimination against women in Google is quite extreme”.

The DoL claimed that the tech giant paid women and non-whites less than white males in comparable jobs.

Janet Herold, a DoL lawyer made her damning comments to The Guardian, after Google refused to hand over employee pay data.

The search-engine giant claims that the request would violate staff privacy and that their own internal audits found no pay discrimination.