Oracle Women Fought 7 Years for Equity, Only to Win Just an Extra Paycheck or Two
- Company resolves pay bias suit with $25 million settlement
- Women had won class-action status, a milestone later withdrawn
Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, California.
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Oracle Corp. female employees who fought the company for almost seven years over gender-pay equity reached a $25 million settlement — a small price for the software giant that amounts to one or two paychecks for most of the women.
The proposed accord filed this week, which requires court approval, would resolve a battle that started in June 2017, one of a series of lawsuits in the last decade accusing tech giants of systematically paying women less than men for the same work.