A gender bias expert, Kim Elsesser, Ph.D., is the author of Sex and the Office, and she taught classes on gender at UCLA for eight years. She is a senior contributor for Forbes and has published in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.
filed in California on Thursday accuses Apple of"intentionally, knowingly, and deliberately paying women less than men for substantially similar work." Plaintiffs Justina Jong and Amina Salgado, who have worked for the tech giant for over a decade, aim to represent more than 12,000 current and former female employees in engineering, marketing, and Apple Care in California.
According to the complaint, Salgado, a development manager for the AppleCare division, repeatedly raised concerns about being paid less than her male coworkers. While Apple initiated an investigation into one of her complaints, her salary was not adjusted. Finally, following a third-party investigation in late 2023, Apple increased Salgado’s compensation but declined to provide back pay for the period she claims she was underpaid.
“Pay expectations are highly correlated with prior pay; studies show that persons asked for pay expectations generally provide a number slightly higher than the pay at their current or last job. Apple’s policy or practice of collecting information about pay expectations and using that information to set starting salary has had the effect of perpetuating past pay disparities and paying women less than men performing substantially similar work,” according to the complaint.
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