PlayStation Sony faces gender discrimination lawsuit

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The suit, filed in California’s northern district, is brought by Emma Majo. Though Majo is currently the sole listed plaintiff, the suit is seeking to comprise a class of female employees, both cisgender and trans, who worked at Sony’s California office “at any time during the time period beginning four years prior to the filing.” (Per Majo’s LinkedIn page, she worked at Sony, specifically in the PlayStation Network department, as an IT security risk analyst for six years before her termination earlier this year.)

Questions of fact here weigh whether or not Sony has engaged in “systemic gender discrimation” by failing to implement a standardized compensation system, and then using it to pay men more than women as a result—and grant more opportunity to male employees. Majo said that her department featured a roughly 60-40 gender split among men and women when she first started. It is now, per the suit, dominated by men.

Though Majo is filing on behalf of a class, some of the details related to her personal situation are troubling, and hint toward broader institutional gender discrimination.
 
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Is kinda weird if that's what Sony executives are doing. Paying the male workers ahead of the female workers. The wages should be measured by everyone's input and not by mere gender discrimination.
 
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Is kinda weird if that's what Sony executives are doing. Paying the male workers ahead of the female workers. The wages should be measured by everyone's input and not by mere gender discrimination.
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Might be a case of different roles though where the men are in higher positions and therefore getting paid more. Obviously that then starts the question of whether the women are given a fair chance to progress to those higher positions.
 
More stuff, read from kotaku:

Some of their stories include “a letter [one worker] shared with female employees when she left the company in January, citing repeated attempts to notify superiors about gender bias, alleged discrimination against pregnant women and resistance from a senior man in HR to act on these accounts”, the fact one former employee had been among 11 women to quit in a four-month period from just one office and one former programmer writing “I believe Sony is not equipped to appropriately handle toxic environments”.

further testimonies include that of former Sony Interactive senior director Marie Harrington:

Harrington also said men at Sony would rank female employees by their “hotness” and pass around “filthy jokes and images of women.” She also described an instance where an engineer asked her not to wear skirts to work “because it was distracting him,” and alleged that male engineers went to strip clubs during lunch and shared porn.
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In another incident, Harrington says she requested a private lactation room after having twins in 2005. She was required to use a “storage room with a broken lock directly off the entrance lobby.” Harrington wrote that she stopped breastfeeding early “because it was not sustainable under those conditions.”
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The eight women’s testimonies have been added to the original suit filed by Emma Majo in November 2021. Axios says that “yesterday’s filing met a deadline for replies to Sony’s attempt to drop the suit”, and that a subsequent hearing “won’t happen until next month, at the earliest.”
 
Sounded like the person who's suing and this writer is a load of greedy liberals. I want qualified workers to get the proper pay. If I wanted to get a base-level job in California I'd ask for more pay as the female and if not that's the exact same thing as being greedy, to begin with, because I know I'd never do that.
 
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Sony asked in February for the lawsuit to be dismissed due to a lack of evidence, with its lawyers now saying that "SIE takes the substance of the newly submitted declarations seriously," Axios reported.

The company is still calling for the lawsuit to be dismissed though, with the filing further reading: "Although most are by former employees who no longer work at SIE, SIE either has addressed or will address the issues raised in them in due course, as SIE values its female employees and takes proactive steps to ensure they have every opportunity to thrive and be heard.

"But these new declarations say nothing about whether the operative complaint in this case contains sufficient facts to support the sweeping claims [the] plaintiff has alleged."
 
Yeah. That sounds like the answer I'd hope for. No business can be brought down by claims with no evidence.
 
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