Google Must Pay Female Executive $1 Million for Gender Bias (1)

Google LLC treated female executive Ulku Rowe differently than other employees because of her gender and must pay her more than $1 million in damages, an eight-person jury decided Friday evening after more than five hours of deliberation.

Jurors said Google owes Rowe $150,000 for pain and suffering caused by Google’s treatment, as well as $1 million in punitive damages.

Rowe’s suit is the first pay discrimination case filed against Google after the mass walkouts in 2018 during which hundreds of Google workers protested how the tech company has handled sexual misconduct by some of its top executives.

During ...