{"id":65252,"date":"2017-09-02T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-lawyers-taking-on-silicon-valley-sexism-its-far-worse-than-people-know\/"},"modified":"2017-09-02T15:52:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T08:52:17","slug":"the-lawyers-taking-on-silicon-valley-sexism-its-far-worse-than-people-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-lawyers-taking-on-silicon-valley-sexism-its-far-worse-than-people-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The lawyers taking on Silicon Valley sexism: 'It's far worse than people know'"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFrom Google to Uber, Silicon Valley\u2019s tech giants have a woman problem. Meet Lawless & Lawless, the sisters fighting backOn the wall of Lawless & Lawless\u2019s San Francisco office is a framed, full-page newspaper advert with a black background and just two words in white text: \u201cThanks Ellen\u201d. The ad, taken out in March 2015 in a Silicon Valley freesheet, referred to Ellen Pao, who had recently fought a $16m sexual discrimination suit against her former employer, venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins. Pao claimed she was passed over for promotion and excluded from meetings after she accused a senior partner of sexual harassment.Although Pao lost the suit, coverage of the case shone a bright light on Silicon Valley\u2019s gender problem. More legal suits followed, this time against Facebook and Tesla. The common denominator? The lawyers representing the women: Therese and Barbara Lawless. The formidable sisters, who have been practising employment law together since the late 1980s, have become the go-to attorneys in the battle against what they describe as America\u2019s \u201cwild west\u201d of gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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