Misleading, editorialized title. NPR's title is "Google Pay Study Finds It Underpaid Men For Some Jobs."
From the Google post: "First, the 2018 analysis flagged one particularly large job code (Level 4 Software Engineer) for adjustments. Within this job code, men were flagged for adjustments because they received less discretionary funds than women." That doesn't say anything about whether women were disproportionately put at level 3 or men at level 5. (Mis-leveling on gender is a particularly believable problem.)
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From the Google post: "First, the 2018 analysis flagged one particularly large job code (Level 4 Software Engineer) for adjustments. Within this job code, men were flagged for adjustments because they received less discretionary funds than women." That doesn't say anything about whether women were disproportionately put at level 3 or men at level 5. (Mis-leveling on gender is a particularly believable problem.)
Here is some actual journalism on the subject and not a repetition of a Google press release: https://www.wired.com/story/men-google-paid-less-than-women-...