Eight more women, some current and several former employees, have added their accounts of sexism at Sony PlayStation to a proposed class action.
This news comes from Axios, reports that these eight statements will be added to the statement by former Sony IT security analyst Emma Majo. She filed a lawsuit against the company last year, alleging that “Sony discriminated against female employees, including those who were female and those who identified as female, in compensation and promotion and made them must conform to a predominantly male work culture.”
Majo has sought court approval in 2021 to turn her case into a class action, claiming she has filed the lawsuit on behalf of herself and all of the women who have worked for Sony. before and who are still working there. Then in February, Sony asked a court to dismiss it. Now, Axios reported that eight other lawsuits about sexism filed at the company in its US offices were added to the case. These claims by women include demeaning remarks, lack of attention to their ideas and work, unwelcome advancements, and the general feeling that advancing in the company is harder for women. female, Axios Write.
One of them is Marie Harrington, a 16-year Sony PlayStation veteran. Her filing states that there is a lack of women being considered for senior roles in “calibration sessions,” citing that in one session only four women were considered for promotion compared with nearly 70. men are considered. Harrington said she heard comments about female candidates’ home lives during sessions that were not open to male candidates.
One of the other candidates said a third-party study found a “massive imbalance in staff allocation” in her team. Another, former program director Kara Johnson, said, “I believe Sony is not equipped to handle hazardous environments appropriately,” in her court filing, according to Axios. Johnson is also said to have shared a letter she sent female employees when she left Sony, talking about her many efforts to inform her superiors about gender stereotypes, discrimination against pregnant women and the objection of a senior man in human resources to act on these statements.
Sony’s request to dismiss this lawsuit will not be resolved until a hearing next month.
For more, be sure to Axios’ Full report. Read about how Sony has asked a court to dismiss this class action Later.
[Source: Axios]
