Google is well-known for attempting at least only to hire the really bright people among us. They’re also finding, as the largest collection of clever people on the planet, that it is somewhat difficult to deal with the gender pay gap problem. This suggests it might not be a simple thing to solve.

Their latest analysis result is not quite what the campaigners desired. Google went out and tried to measure each and every job for comparability. Is this the “same work” or work of equal value? If so, the people doing it should be paid equally. The result of this being that they discovered underpayment of men, a failing that had to be remedied with significant adjustments. Adjustment here meaning more pay for those men, quite contrary to the insistence of the more vocal campaigners — you know, those who keep telling us women are unfairly treated in tech, and the gender pay gap is proof perfect of that simple fact.