Microsoft employees met with CEO Satya Nadella to discuss concerns of discrimination against women in career advancement as well as claims of sexual harassment
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New York, USA - May 25, 2018: Pedestrians walk past the Microsoft store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Photo Credit: GettyThe meeting is a response to a widespread online discussion that started late last month and began with an email posted to a distribution list on March 20. An employee asked women for advice about how to move up the ranks at the company because she said she worked in the same position for six years without seeing an opportunity for advancement.
Yet another said that she was called a “bitch” at work more than once and that other women on her Xbox team were as well. “This is a Microsoft thing, a common one,” she wrote. Other common complaints included the pressure to be seen as “nice,” feeling excluded from promotions and the bias and unequal treatment that allegedly comes from being viewed as a “diversity hire,” according to Wired.
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