Nuked The former COO of Pinterest is suing the company for gender discrimination. Francoise Brougher says she was paid less than her male peers, repeatedly left out of important meetings, and given gendered feedback. She was fired after speaking out about these concerns, the lawsuit says.
Brougher made less than her male peers, and her equity vested at a slower rate. After bringing this to the attention of Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann, she still had to fight to be fairly compensated.
Brougher says she was excluded from board meetings after the IPO.’when you are not in the meeting where the decisions are made and do n’t have the context, it makes your job harder’.
Brougher was able to attend board meetings when she first joined the company. She noticed the board members rarely pushed back.’this was not something I was used to,’ she wrote.
When she asked Silbermann about why the board did n’t challenge them, she says he responded’I chose them’.
Brougher wrote that the management team at Pinterest was’riven by backstabbing and gossip’. She remembers one colleague saying’the only way we get things done here is hiding things’.
The behavior flew in the face of Pinterest’s values in early 2019. In reality, Brougher writes,’saying what you really thought was still dangerous at Pinterest’.
Lawsuit also lays out alleged discrimination on the part of chief financial officer Todd morgenfeld. According to the complaint, morgenfeld asked Brougher’what is your job anyway?’.
Brougher compared the situation to’an old couple fighting over who would make coffee’. In April, she was fired.
ifeoma ozoma and aerica Shimizu banks worked on Pinterest’s public policy team. They say they were underpaid and subject to racist comments from their manager, according to the Washington Post.
The new lawsuit is the most high-profile gender discrimination suit in Silicon Valley since Ellen Pao took the firm to court in 2012. Brougher is being represented by the same law firm that represented Pao.
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The lawsuit against Pinterest by Zoe Schiffer is on scribdddd. The lawsuit was filed by the author of the film Pinterest.
