Arjuna Capital slams Google over equal pay for women data
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Activist investor Natasha Lamb  managing partner for  Arjuna Capital   is once again calling on Google to share information on if it pays women equally to men.
Lamb has reason to be curious.  Arjuna  has been attempting to work with Google's parent company Alphabet on this issue for a couple of years now.
 Arjuna  was willing to give  its  stamp of approval for that limited comparison  in the hopes that the company would eventually share an analysis of all of it. But then Alphabet changed its mind on cooperating  the board opposed the proposal and has been refusing to talk with her about the matter ever since  she says.
However  a Google spokesperson tells Business Insider that the company has actually done all that Lamb wanted and that its comparisons do include salary  bonuses and stock. "We've provided the number they [ Arjuna ] requested  just like some other companies have  and we've provided details of our methodology here. This analysis includes stock."
 Arjuna  has worked on shareholder proposals with seven other tech companies  all of which eventually agreed to release the asked-for gender pay comparison metrics: eBay  Intel  Apple  Amazon  Expedia  Microsoft and Adobe.
The only other company besides Google that refused her requests to share this data was Facebook  which has also spurned  Arjuna's shareholder proposal on the matter .
To be fair  shareholder proposals are almost always opposed by companies. If the board agrees with them  the company simply makes the asked-for change  and  the proposal  is dropped ahead of time. If the board opposes them  they virtually never pass.
In addition to pushing tech companies   Arjuna  has also been targeting the investment banking industry to release  its  gender pay data as well.
Activist investor Natasha Lamb  managing partner for   [TGT] is once again calling on Google to share information on if  [TGT]  pays women equally to men.
Lamb has reason to be curious.   [TGT] has been attempting to work with Google's parent company Alphabet on this issue for a couple of years now.
  [TGT] was willing to give   [TGT]   stamp of approval for that limited comparison  in the hopes that  [TGT]  would eventually share an analysis of all of it. But then Alphabet changed its mind on cooperating  the board opposed the proposal and has been refusing to talk with her about the matter ever since  she says.
However  a Google spokesperson tells Business Insider that  [TGT]  has actually done all that Lamb wanted and that  [TGT]  comparisons do include salary  bonuses and stock. "We've provided the number they [  [TGT]  ] requested  just like some other companies have  and we've provided details of our methodology here. This analysis includes stock."
 Arjuna  has worked on shareholder proposals with seven other tech companies  all of which eventually agreed to release the asked-for gender pay comparison metrics: eBay  Intel  Apple  Amazon  Expedia  Microsoft and Adobe.
The only other company besides Google that refused her requests to share this data was Facebook  which has also spurned   [TGT]  .
To be fair  shareholder proposals are almost always opposed by companies. If the board agrees with them  the company simply makes the asked-for change  and   [TGT] is dropped ahead of time. If the board opposes them  they virtually never pass.
In addition to pushing tech companies   Arjuna  has also been targeting the investment banking industry to release  its  gender pay data as well.