As Antarctic fieldwork ends, a sexual harassment reckoning looms
Enlarge / Personal tents for staff at the Shackleton Glacier science camp, situated on the Shackleton Glacier in the Transantarctic mountains of Antarctica. In September 2022, two months before Ph.D. student Megan Kerr was scheduled to board a military plane bound for the Antarctic ice sheet, she found herself in a conference room on Oregon…
Former Wells Fargo VP faces charges of sexual harassment, obscenity, and...
Shankar Mishra, a former Wells Fargo VP, was arrested in India on Saturday, local outlets reported. Officials accused Mishra of drunkenly urinating on a 72-year-old woman on an Air India flight in November. After a search to locate him, Mishra now faces charges including sexual harassment for the incident. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for…
The women calling out Apple’s handling of misconduct claims
Bloomberg | FT Megan Mohr was five years into her Apple career when, in 2013, a male colleague took advantage of her after a platonic night out drinking together. After the colleague drove her home and helped her inside, she briefly fell asleep before waking to the sound of clicking. The colleague had removed her…
What Your Sexts (or Lack Thereof) Say About Your Relationship
Image: Sudowoodo (Shutterstock)The rise of smartphones with great cameras is one of many modern innovations that only reinforced an enduring fact of human existence: We’re all horny. Heck, innovation itself is horny—for a long time, the prevailing wisdom dictated that new tech would succeed as soon as someone figured out how to make it sexy.…
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick says he would consider stepping down
Enlarge / Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick. Embattled Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick told colleagues that he would consider stepping down and departing the organization if the company's deep-running sexual harassment and other cultural problems are not resolved.This is according to a Wall Street Journal report citing "people familiar with his comments." The report didn't…
Internal Activision Blizzard petition rebukes “abhorrent, insulting” leadership
In the wake of a sexual harassment and pay-disparity lawsuit filed against Activision Blizzard, an internal petition has begun circulating at the gaming company. Its text, as independently verified by multiple outlets, comes down against leadership's public and private response to the suit's allegations. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier and Kotaku's Ethan Gach reprinted content from the same…
Activision Blizzard sued by state agency over alleged widespread discrimination
Enlarge / Sign on facade of Activision's Los Angeles offices.Getty Images On Wednesday, a California State agency filed a lawsuit against the game publisher Activision Blizzard over allegations of rampant sexual discrimination and sexual harassment. The nature of this harassment is so widespread, the lawsuit says, that women who have worked for the game maker "almost…
Alphabet, shareholders settle in lawsuits over sexual harassment at Google
Enlarge / Google's corporate headquarters. Alphabet, Google's parent company, said today it has settled a set of shareholder lawsuits related to the company's handling of sexual harassment claims. Alphabet will commit $310 million to corporate diversity programs over the next decade, and the company agreed to allow its board to take on a greater oversight…
Ubisoft’s “most powerful creative force” resigns in wake of sweeping allegations
Enlarge / Ubisoft's Montreal headquarters.Getty Images Ubisoft's chief creative officer tendered his resignation from the video game publisher behind series like Far Cry and Assassin's Creed on Saturday, one day before its biggest gaming-reveal event of the year. Longtime CCO Serge Hascoet, described by Bloomberg game industry reporter Jason Schreier as Ubisoft's "most powerful creative…
Email chain triggers Microsoft to examine reports of unwanted sexual advances...
Women at Microsoft have been sharing reports of sexual harassment by both fellow coworkers and external partners that were often ignored by managers and human resources alike, according to a report by Quartz. On March 20, an employee emailed other women at the company to ask for advice on moving up the chain after six…
