{"id":45894,"date":"2015-03-28T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T05:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45894"},"modified":"2015-03-28T12:12:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T04:12:44","slug":"jury-decides-silicon-valley-firm-did-not-discriminate-against-female-worker-who-filed-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/28\/jury-decides-silicon-valley-firm-did-not-discriminate-against-female-worker-who-filed-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury decides Silicon Valley firm did not discriminate against female worker who filed lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45895\" style=\"width: 852px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-28-at-12.11.17-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45895\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-28-at-12.11.17-PM.png\" alt=\"Ellen Pao (middle, in white) makes courthouse satement after loss. Screenshot from TechCrunch \/ Youtube.\" width=\"852\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-28-at-12.11.17-PM.png 852w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-28-at-12.11.17-PM-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellen Pao (middle, in white) makes courthouse satement after loss. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a1vTUTHnBNw\" target=\"_blank\">Screenshot from TechCrunch \/ Youtube<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO\u2014A jury says a prestigious venture capital firm did not discriminate or retaliate against a female employee in a case that drew attention to gender imbalance and working conditions for women in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The jury in San Francisco reached the verdict Friday in the lawsuit filed by Ellen Pao against Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers.<\/p>\n<p>The case shined a spotlight on the technology and venture capital sectors, where women are grossly underrepresented.<\/p>\n<p>Industry consultants said the case had sparked some companies to re-examine their cultures and practices for potential gender bias.<\/p>\n<p>Jurors heard conflicting portraits of Pao during closing arguments. Her attorneys said she was an accomplished junior partner who was passed over for a promotion and fired because the firm used different standards to judge men and women.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Kleiner Perkins countered that Pao failed as an investor at the company and sued to get a big payout as she was being shown the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO\u2014A jury says a prestigious venture capital firm did not discriminate or retaliate against a female employee in a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":45895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","category-technology","mauthors-sudhin-thanawala","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}