Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has won a three year legal battle against a former employee who claimed she was discriminated against because of her gender.
A jury at the San Francisco Country Superior Court found Ellen Pao had not been sexually harassed or held back in her career because of her gender, saving the venture capital firm from potentially millions of dollars in compensation.
After the verdict, Pao turned to Twitter to say she had been inspired by “the thousands of people” who have supported her over the past three years.
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Broede Carmody is a former senior SmartCompany reporter. Before this, he was a co-editor of RMIT University’s student magazine Catalyst.
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