Oracle Women Fight Years for Equity, Win a Paycheck or Two (1)

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.

The case against Oracle was the first in the industry to win class-action status, a milestone never ...