A Google employee said she faced discrimination and retaliation at work due to her pregnancy
Photo: NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images In a 2,300-word memo posted to an internal company message board last week, a Google employee said she faced discrimination and retaliation at work due to her pregnancy.
The woman — whose name has not been shared — says her saga began a year and a half ago, shortly after she was promoted. Her director, she writes, began making “inappropriate comments” about a member of her team, “including that the Googler was likely pregnant again and was overly emotional and hard to work with when pregnant.
A few weeks after joining her new team, the author says she was diagnosed with a pregnancy-related condition that was “life-threatening” to her and her unborn daughter. When she shared this information with her new manager, it did not go well. Per the memo: “I stood up for a mother on my team, and doing so sent me down a path that destroyed my career trajectory at Google,” the memo concludes.
Singapore Latest News, Singapore Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
The Latest: Suspect's family says truth hasn't yet come outThe family of one of the two California teenagers held in the Rome slaying of a police officer is 'looking forward to the truth coming out in the case and our son coming home,' an attorney for the family says.
Read more »
A Leaked Google Memo Exposes The Fallacy of 'Generous' Parental Leave
Read more »
Apple and Google should be ashamed of their part in an insidious Saudi Arabian app that even the Saudi government now admits has to changeSaudi Arabia on Friday ditched a system requiring adult women to receive a man's permission to cross the Saudi border. It was no thanks to big tech.
Read more »
Google slashed the price of its premium flagship Pixel 3 smartphones down to $500, but I'd still recommend you buy the $400 mid-range Pixel 3a insteadThe premium Pixel 3 phones are now only $100 more than the mid-range Pixel 3a phones, but you're not getting that much more for the extra $100.
Read more »
Google employees 'really want Trump to lose in 2020,' ex-engineer says of Silicon Valley search giantA former Google engineer claimed the Silicon Valley tech giant has 'very biased people running every level of the company' who are going all-in to ensure President Donald Trump doesn't win reelection
Read more »