Former Yahoo employee accuses company of gender bias – against men

2016-02-03T05:08:42+00:00

I was chuckling at this article, actually.

On the one hand, male numeric predominance in a given industry or department is not only prima facie proof of discrimination, it is also a problem to be solved. It is Bad And Wrong. Meanwhile...

the percentage of female managers in Yahoo’s media division increased from 20% to more than 80% during Savitt’s tenure

Well, then! No problems to be seen in that department. I guess there's no hint of discrimination in that case, is there? 80%+ women is perfectly allowable, not a pixel's worth of anything to suggest wrongdoing, and numbers mean nothing now. Anything other than 50/50 is suspicious and a problem to be tackled... unless it's 80/20 with the Extra-Special Vagina-Having Premium-People predominating and that's wonderful, like Snickers bars falling from the sky.

I can only imagine that a 100% female department would be the fairest and most equalest department of them all.

autotldr · 2016-02-07T08:11:31+00:00

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 85%. (I'm a bot)

In a lawsuit filed 1 February in US district court, Yahoo is accused of "Actual and intentional gender-based discrimination" against male employees by Gregory Anderson, a former Yahoo employee who worked as an editorial director for the website for four years, until his firing in November 2014.

The complaint alleges that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer "Encouraged and fostered the use of the QPR Program to accommodate management's subjective biases and personal opinions, to the detriment of Yahoo's male employees".

According to the complaint, the percentage of female managers in Yahoo's media division increased from 20% to more than 80% during Savitt's tenure and "Females with the same Employee Score as male employees were treated better than their male counterparts".

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Title	Former Yahoo employee accuses company of gender bias – against men
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Date	February 3, 2016 2:54 AM UTC (10 years ago)
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