In an extensive mail chain within Microsoft, female employees and partners have shared their experiences of sexual harassment and gender discrimination, Quartz reported citing 90 email pages reviewed by them.
The chain started when on 20 March, one employee asked other women in the company about ways to move up in the organisation, six years after being at a stagnant position without seeing a possibility of moving ahead.
Quartz verified the emails with two Microsoft employees. An employee, according to the report has written on the mail that the thread has pulled a scab off a festering wound and that the mail reaching a wider audience is a good thing.
Quartz laid down a few cases of the kind of harassment faced by female employees in Microsoft:
Microsoft's top HR executive has also responded to the mail thread, the report said citing a company spokesperson and the company is holding a meeting on Friday where it’s expected to address the accusations laid down in the thread.
“I would like to offer to anyone who has had such demeaning experiences including those who felt were dismissed by management or HR to email me directly. I will personally look into the situation with my team,” Hogan was quoted by Quartz as saying on the mail trail.
The report also said that CEO Satya Nadella and chief legal officer Brad Smith were also included on the list of recipients in the email chain.
(With inputs from Quartz)
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