Google agreed to pay $118 million to settle a lawsuit claiming the tech giant had discriminated against women in pay and promotions.

The settlement concludes a class-action suit in San Francisco Superior Court initiated in 2017 by three female former employees who said that Google, a unit of Alphabet placed them in lower-job levels than similarly qualified males, leading to lower pay, and denied the women promotions or transitions to other teams that would have led to better career advancement.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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