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A Third Uber Engineer Just Came Forward About Sexism - But Her Story Is Very Different
A Third Uber Engineer Just Came Forward About Sexism—But Her Story Is Very Differenthttp://observer.com/2017/03/another-female-uber-engineer-claims-sexism-harassment/?utm_campaign=social+flow&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
By Sage Lazzaro • 03/03/17 3:42pm
Almost two weeks ago, Susan Fowler came forward with horrific allegations of sexism and sexual harassment at Uber. One week ago, another “Uber survivor” anonymously detailed what she had endured at the company. To show this problem runs rampant outside of just this one startup, the Observer talked to women who work in tech who have also faced blatant sexism and sexual harassment at work—the problem turned out to be so prevalent that it only took us a few hours to find 12 women willing to tell us their stories.
Today, another former Uber engineer named Keala Lusk took to Medium to detail the sexism and other forms of corruption she faced and witnessed during her time at the company. And like how our story showed sexism isn’t just an Uber problem, her post shows it’s not just a male manager problem. The source of her discrimination was her female boss.
“Near the end of my time at Uber, I reached out to HR and my manager about the disrespect I was facing — from the female engineering manager I [reported] directly to each day,” Lusk wrote. “Unlike all of the other Uber stories I have read, I wasn’t dealing with some white guy in power. This is a woman, just like me. Like all of the other stories, nothing changed even after multiple meetings with my manager and HR. It was simply brushed aside and swept under the carpet of collective Uber suffering.”
Lusk begins by listing some of what she saw and experienced: malicious fights for power, interns repeatedly working 100-hour weeks but only being paid for 40 and discrimination against women and the transgender community. And then she gets into her own experience, mostly in the form of a summary of the last email she sent to HR in an attempt to rectify the situation with her manager, who is referred to with the pseudonym Tina throughout the post.
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