Microsoft employees highlight sexism and harassment at work

Although Microsoft is successfully fighting a clbad-action lawsuit alleging widespread gender discrimination in society, some women in society have started to complain out loud about their treatment.

In a messaging chain of over 90 pages, business women tell sometimes shocking stories, writes Dave Gershgorn of Quartz.

The e-mail chain began on March 20 when a female employee sought advice from another after spending six years in the same job without any promotion in sight.

While e-mail was shared, dozens of women reacted, expressing their own frustration at their career advancement and sharing stories of other work experiences, reports Quartz.

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For example, a woman claims to have been invited to sit on the lap of a colleague in front of a human resources manager during a work trip.

Another stated that she had been referred to as "b …." many times in the Xbox, Windows, and Azure organizations, and claimed that at a "roundtable," she said. other women had told the same story.

One of them alleged that when she had reported a terrifying incident by a Microsoft partner (and not by an employee) who had threatened her, her supervisor had dismissed those threats , calling them "flirtatious" and told him to "get it back" and RH had raised it was a partner, not an employee.

Microsoft did not immediately return Business Insider's comment request.

The article details more such stories of women, ranging from how they have been deprecated through work badignments to badist comments during work trips.

The channel was eventually sent to Kathleen Hogan, human resources manager for Microsoft, who responded saying that she had spoken to management and that she was "dismayed". She promised that anyone could come to see her directly to report such cases and that she would personally review them with her team.

But Microsoft's investigations into complaints of badual harbadment or gender discrimination have been criticized in the past.

The company is currently successfully fighting lawsuits filed by three women who claim that Microsoft has not opened a full investigation into 238 internal complaints of badual harbadment and discrimination. The complainants also claim that women are systematically underpaid at Microsoft.

Microsoft has always denied the merits of this case and is committed to the equal treatment of women.

In January, a judge ruled in favor of Microsoft and denied clbad action status. This means that other women can not join the case. They would have to sue Microsoft themselves, say lawyers in the case.

– This story was first published at BusinessInsider.com.au