Google Cloud director Ulku Rowe says she was underpaid by hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's set to be the first case to reach trial since an employee revolt led Google to drop forced arbitration.
A pay discrimination trial against Google is scheduled to begin in New York later this week, the first since the company ended forced arbitration. Ulku Rowe, an executive in Google’s cloud unit, alleges that she was hired at a lower level and salary than equally or less qualified men and that Google retaliated when she complained, denying her promotion opportunities and even demoting her.
Google hired Rowe, formerly a chief technical officer at JPMorgan Chase and a Fulbright scholar, as a technical director of financial services at Google Cloud in 2017. According to filings for the case headed for trial this week, she was the only woman among 17 people hired for technical director roles at Google over a two-year period. Some, including Rowe, were brought on at level 8 on Google’s internal hierarchy, while others were hired at a level 9, a notch below Vice President.
During an internal Google investigation into Rowe’s complaints, the executive recruiter involved in the VP of Financial Services search described Rowe as “abrasive,” “cantankerous,” and “bristly.”found that women were 11 times more likely than men to be described as “abrasive.” The investigation found no wrongdoing.
When Rowe joined Google in 2017, the male-dominated tech industry was undergoing a reckoning over its treatment of women. A month earlier, Uber engineer Susan Fowler hadabout the discrimination and sexual harassment she’d faced at the company, spurring other colleagues to come forward and precipitating the eventualduring the recent wave of layoffs, could threaten that momentum.
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