- A California jury has reached a verdict in a high profile gender discrimination lawsuit brought by former Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers partner Ellen Pao against the venture capital firm, a court official said on Friday. The verdict will be read at 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET) in San Francisco Superior Court in a case that helped spark a broad discussion about sexism in Silicon Valley. The case has laid bare the personnel matters of the firm that backed Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc, with Pao's attorneys painting Kleiner as a quarrelsome pressure cooker where a former male partner used business trips as opportunities to make advances to female colleagues.Pao, now interim chief executive at social-news service Reddit, claimed her standing at Kleiner crumbled after she ended a brief affair with partner Ajit Nazre. Her career deteriorated after he and Kleiner started retaliating against her, amid a climate that was overall unfriendly toward women, her lawyers argued. The firm vigorously disputed those charges, presenting evidence that Kleiner went out of its way to hire women. (Reporting by Dan Levine; Editing by Tiffany Wu)
Friday, March 27, 2015
Jury has reached a verdict in Silicon Valley discrimination trial
- A California jury has reached a verdict in a high profile gender discrimination lawsuit brought by former Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers partner Ellen Pao against the venture capital firm, a court official said on Friday. The verdict will be read at 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET) in San Francisco Superior Court in a case that helped spark a broad discussion about sexism in Silicon Valley. The case has laid bare the personnel matters of the firm that backed Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc, with Pao's attorneys painting Kleiner as a quarrelsome pressure cooker where a former male partner used business trips as opportunities to make advances to female colleagues.Pao, now interim chief executive at social-news service Reddit, claimed her standing at Kleiner crumbled after she ended a brief affair with partner Ajit Nazre. Her career deteriorated after he and Kleiner started retaliating against her, amid a climate that was overall unfriendly toward women, her lawyers argued. The firm vigorously disputed those charges, presenting evidence that Kleiner went out of its way to hire women. (Reporting by Dan Levine; Editing by Tiffany Wu)
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