Twitter Lawsuit: Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR), won’t have to face a group-bias lawsuit which alleges the company discriminates against female software engineers.
Tina Huang is the women leading the case against Twitter. Her argument states that female engineers are promoted less often than men, are held in lower positions for longer periods of time and are “almost absent from senior ranks.” She believes 135 current and former engineers for the company are on side with her argument and can back up the claim about systematic discrimination within Twitter.
Huang also argues that her claim is supported by an economist and statistician report taken in 2017.
Twitter Lawsuit: At Court
However, Judge Mary E. Wiss of the California Superior Court in San Francisco has found the accusations to be incongruent. Her ruling was decided because of a lack of commonality found between the accusations on how the group of women were allegedly withheld from promotions and raises relative to male employees. She said that Huang’s Claims were “not typical” of other claims.
Charlotte Garden, a law professor at Seattle University describes the ruling as “a setback, though not the end of the case,” She also suggested that the ruling many point to weaknesses in the heart of the plaintiff’s allegations that women engineers at Twitter are unfairly treated.
Huang’s lawyer, on the other hand, contended that there was enough consistency of experience between the peers to proceed as a group and that the company had its management use a particular process for promoting its engineers.
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What Does Twitter Say?
Twitter argued that the women had no proof of systemic discrimination or that managers used a common set of practices to determine promotions. As a result, it stands firmly that the case is not fit to proceed as a class action lawsuit.
Twitter has over 3,500 employees across 35 offices worldwide. About 850 of those employees are software engineers.
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