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Google Accused Of Underpaying Female Employees

The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating Google for what an official called "systemic compensation disparities" between men and women. The government is suing the company to release its records.

Just three days after Google announced that it had "closed the gender" on , a Department of Labor official testified in federal court that there is "systemic" discrimination against women at Google.

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