E3: PlayStation Sexism Lawsuit Intensifies As 8 More Women Share Allegations Against The Company
Last November, a former IT security analyst at PlayStation filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing it of gender discrimination and wrongful termination after she raised concerns “about discrimination against females." While Sony asked the court to dismiss her claims, citing them as lacking in evidence, eight women are now stepping forward with their own accounts of sexist treatment while working for the gaming giant.
According to Axios, the accounts include allegations of "demeaning comments, unwelcome advances, a lack of attention paid to their work or ideas," and "a sense that it was harder for women to be promoted in the company." These allegations come just shortly after Sony denied "any widespread intentional discrimination" within the company.
One of the women who stepped forward--PlayStation veteran Marie Harrington--claimed that women were rarely considered for senior roles during the company's “calibration sessions.” According to Harrington, "only four women were considered for promotions, compared to nearly 70 men" during one of these meetings. She also described hearing comments about "female candidates’ family lives that weren’t made about male candidates." In 2018, Harrington reportedly sent a New York Times article about women revolting against toxic males at Nike to her co-workers, writing, “Can we address this before PlayStation has its own national news article?”
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