Google data-mines its approach to promoting women

Four years ago, Google was confronted with a troubling stat: Its male engineers were raising their hands for promotions at higher rates than women. Google couldn’t understand why women weren’t going for better titles and higher pay when it had a system where anyone could apply for a promotion.

That volunteer system was exactly the problem, Laszlo Bock, Google’s senior vice president of People Operations, said in a recent interview. What happened next was quintessential Google, the world’s biggest Internet data monger that insists on putting hard statistics at the center of its internal operations, too.

Bock pointed to findings from two studies on gender inequality in schools and in business:

By Cecilia Kang

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