Silicon Valley is having a rough week. Today, the judge in the Ellen Pao trial ruled that Pao could sue her former employer, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, for punitive damages. Earlier this week, we reported that a former Facebook employee is suing the company for sexual discrimination and sexual harassment, among other offenses. Now it seems Twitter too will face legal pushback for gender discrimination. A former female software engineer at Twitter filed a class action lawsuit this week claiming the company's promotion process unlawfully favors men, according to Reuters.
There's a "shoulder tap" process for promotions
A class action suit was filed on Thursday in San Francisco by former Twitter employee Tina Huang, according...
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