More than 60 women consider suing Google

San Francisco: More than 60 current and former Google employees are considering have joined forces to discuss a possible class-action lawsuit against the company. their lawyer James Finberg told The Guardian.

James Finberg, the civil rights attorney working on the possible legal action on behalf of the female employees, told the Guardian that women claim that they’ve been paid less than their male co-workers for equivalent work and faced a “culture that is hostile to women.”

He said, the others have struggled in other ways to advance their careers at Google due to a “culture that is hostile to women”.

Google is reeling from the leak over the weekend of a male software engineer’s 10-page manifesto criticising diversity initiatives and arguing that men occupy more leadership roles than women in tech “biological differences”. The company says it’s too expensive to get wage data. The document widely condemned as scientifically inaccurate, prompted Google to eventually fire James Damore, and re-ignited debate about discrimination and sexual harassment that critics say is rampant in the technology industry.

A class-action gender discrimination suit would build on a case brought by the US Department of Labor.

James Finberg, the civil rights attorney working on the possible legal action on behalf of the female employees, said that women claim that they’ve been paid less than their male co-workers for equivalent work