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Apple punishes women for same behaviors that get men promoted, lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)

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Apple has spent years "intentionally, knowingly, and deliberately paying women less than men for substantially similar work," a proposed class action lawsuit filed in California on Thursday alleged.

A victory for women suing could mean that more than 12,000 current and former female employees in California could collectively claw back potentially millions in lost wages from an apparently ever-widening wage gap allegedly perpetuated by Apple policies.

The lawsuit was filed by two employees who have each been with Apple for more than a decade, Justina Jong and Amina Salgado. They claimed that Apple violated California employment laws between 2020 and 2024 by unfairly discriminating against California-based female employees in Apple’s engineering, marketing, and AppleCare divisions and "systematically" paying women "lower compensation than men with similar education and experience."

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Apple sucks, has always sucked, and anyone who ever wasted their labor towards that Ziggurat of western excess deserves all the acid rainfall of western doublethink

FTFY

ETA: Foxconn (I.O.W. the people actually responsible for making Apple products) literally built nets around their factories to prevent their employees from killing themselves by jumping out of the windows. Do with that information what you will.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Source on that last part?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides

https://www.wired.com/2010/08/foxconn-rallies-workers-installs-suicide-nets/

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Here's what they look like if anyone's wondering.

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