Judge Rejects Gender Inequity Lawsuit Against Google A U.S. Department of Labor 2015 analysis found gender inequity in Google, which prompted a lawsuit against the tech giant by three of its female employees. But this week, a California judge tossed the lawsuit, claiming it "…does not purport to distinguish between female employees who may have valid claims against Google based upon its alleged conduct from those who do not." Judge statement according to CNN Google made its equal pay methodology available for other business to compare and claimed it pays women 99.7 cents to each dollar that male employees receive. "If we ever see individual discrepancies or problems, we work to fix them." Gina Scigliano, Google spokeswoman