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A class-action lawsuit was filed against PlayStation in November 2021 at the company’s California offices alleging “pay disparity, wrongful termination and other instances of gender-based discrimination.” Sony has since sought to drop the matter, but now, more women have come forward with their own stories.
As axios The report, while the case was originally brought by a former employee, attempts to dismiss Sony’s case the company said it “fails to identify a single policy, practice or procedure”. [PlayStation] which allegedly created the basis for any widespread intentional discrimination or had a discriminatory effect on women” instead several other women added their names and experiences to the suit.
Some of his stories include “A Letter”. [one worker] It was shared with female employees when they cited repeated attempts to inform superiors about gender bias, alleged discrimination against pregnant women and the actions of a senior person in human resources on these accounts. had left the company in January, citing resistance”, the fact that a former employee was among them. 11 women left the office in just one four-month period and a former programmer wrote “I believe that Sony is not equipped to appropriately handle toxic environments”.
As polygon Reports, further testimony includes Mary Harrington, former senior director at Sony Interactive:
Harrington also said that Sony men would rank female employees based on their “hotness” and pass around “dirty jokes and pictures of women”. She also described an instance where an engineer told her not to wear a skirt to work “because it was distracting her,” and alleged that male engineers would strip clubs during lunches and share porn. Were.
In another incident, Harrington says she requested a private breastfeeding room after having twins in 2005. He was required to use the “storage room with the broken lock directly across from the entrance lobby”. Harrington wrote that she stopped breastfeeding early “because it was not sustainable under those circumstances.”
The testimonies of eight women have been added to the original trial filed by Emma Majo in November 2021. axios says that “yesterday’s filing meets a deadline for a response to Sony’s attempt to drop the lawsuit”, and that a subsequent hearing will take place “until next month, at the earliest.”
We have contacted Sony for comment.
