How an AI startup is trying to fix gender bias in workplace

When Katica Roy returned to work after the birth of her daughter, her supervisor asked her to take on two new teams, tripling her workload in a matter of two weeks without additional pay or a promotion. Meanwhile, management asked a male colleague to take on one extra team. With his new responsibilities came a promotion and more pay. In order to get the pay equity due her, Roy notified her human resources team about the Lilly Ledbetter Act, a federal law that helps pay practices are non-discriminatory and fair, without gender or other bias, by making it easier to file equal-pay lawsuits. While she ended up succeeding in her gender bias protest, the process led Roy to found and become CEO of Pipeline Equity, a SaaS vendor that uses cloud-based AI, machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) technology to improve the financial performance of its users by trying to close the gender equity gap.