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Workplace Bias and Gender Pay Equity in Silicon Valley, 2017

It was only a couple of years ago that a jury rejected Ellen Pao's gender discrimination claims and rendered a defense verdict in favor of her former employer, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Now, issues of bias and pay equity are again taking center stage, with almost daily media reports about Silicon Valley's gender problem and a continuing list of companies and notable Silicon Valley figures being taken to task with allegations of inappropriate conduct toward women.

10 minute read December 01, 2017 at 12:04 AM
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Eric Akira Tate and Kathiana Aurelien
Workplace Bias and Gender Pay Equity in Silicon Valley, 2017

It was only a couple of years ago, on March 27, 2015, that a jury rejected Ellen Pao's gender discrimination claims and rendered a defense verdict in favor of her former employer, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

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